Name of distribution in the version number of Debian and Ubuntu packages

Hello, I noticed two problems with the name of distribution and its location in the version number of packages. 1) We can soon expect: Names of distributions are not ascending. After Wheezy will follow Jessie => packages with ~jessie in the name will be considered older than ~wheezy (and also ~squeeze). 2) It is a real problem already now: Before the name of the distribution is in the version of package 'packaging-release' number by tde-packaging. After split folder for new distribution this number is *always lower* than the previous distribution. This now makes it impossible to do dist-upgrade for many distributions. My suggestions are: 1) Use the version number of the distribution instead of the name. 2) Move the distribution version number before other numbers. For example, from: 14.0.0-0debian12+r789+pr42~wheezy Change version to: 14.0.0-0debian12.7.0+r789+pr42 And in the future (to allow switch format from native to quilt): 14.0.0~r789-0debian12.7.0+pr42 Note: I noticed that the same use version number of distribution can be found even in the standard ubuntu packages - such as firefox. Slavek --