Comment 2 for bug 1959115

Which version have you tested? backportpackge in u-d-t 0.187+ should
already be using the ~bp suffix.
Notably, note that 0.187 is available in focal-bpo.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, 8:35 pm Ross Gammon, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Regarding the requestbackport package, it is really only the template
> for the bug report that needs to change from memory. I don't think it
> had any other workflow related information. Once that is fixed, it just
> needs a reference from the backports process wiki again (like it used to
> have).
>
> Regarding the backportpackage script, I just tried it, and it is fine for
> testing in a ppa. I think we could already recommend using this on the wiki
> with a ppa specified in the -u option. Perhaps a warning not to upload to
> the archive with it yet would be required though. I had hoped I could
> specify the new "bpo" version string with the suffix option, but according
> to the manpage, the "~ubuntu" bit is hardwired:
> -S SUFFIX, --suffix=SUFFIX
> Add the specified suffix to the version number when
> backporting.
> backportpackage will always append ~ubuntuDESTINATION.1 to
> the
> original version number, and if SUFFIX is specified, it is
> ap‐
> pended to that, to get version numbers of the form
> ORIGINAL_VER‐
> SION~ubuntuDESTINATION.1SUFFIX. If the backported package is
> be‐
> ing uploaded to a PPA, then SUFFIX defaults to ~ppa1,
> otherwise
> the default is blank.
>
> Now that a bug is always required, I suppose the script should prompt
> for that, and the "-c/--close" options be taken away.
>
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> Title:
> update backportpackage and requestbackport scripts to behave according
> to new backport process
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