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Please add version in the package name only when necessary

For now, debcargo adds version into every package name. For example, one of the dependency of ripgrep is "librust-encoding-rs-0.7+default-dev" this should be called instead "librust-encoding-rs+default-dev"

For several reasons:

  • it is going to be impossible to maintain properly rust packages in the archive if we have X versions of the same libraries. We had to do that for Java, it isn't fun at all...
  • this will requires to go throught NEW for every new version
  • security issues management will be a huge pain as we will have to backport to all instances of the packages
  • backports will be a pain too

Probably more