[00:13] <realtime-neil_> cjwatson: I understand why separation is desired. Why is the tilde used to make the generated version sort _earlier_ than the release immediately preceding it?
[00:23] <cjwatson> realtime-neil_: Because recipes are often used for backports, and this means that the backport sorts earlier than the version it was backported from, which is the proper upgrade behaviour
[00:38] <realtime-neil_> cjwatson: I see. Thank you for explaining it.