Comment 4 for bug 235064

I think binary only rebuilds would be a fine solution. There are
enough cases that using the same binaries on later releases wouldn't
work (think package transitions that have alternatives listed in
debian/control)

On 01/09/2009, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:
> IIRC the Debian implementation of this (if I'm remembering correctly
> that this is even supported at all in Debian) works by building it for
> the oldest listed distribution and then automatically copying the
> binaries to the others once they're built. That saves having to mess
> about with different binary versions.
>
> This would only work for sources that build binaries that will actually
> work on all the distributions at once; however, in many of the
> situations where one might want to use this, that would be the case. I
> think that could be an acceptable restriction. Pau, Mario, what do you
> think?
>
> Alternatively, one could look at the builds for the later distributions
> as a kind of binary-only rebuild, as discussed elsewhere. I believe the
> Debian convention for those is to append +b1 +b2 etc. to the binary
> versions.
>
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> Implement multi-release support for packages
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235064
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