Take Release “WILD ARMS TWILIGHT VENOM ANIMATION SOUNDTRACK” by 大谷幸 - Cover art - MusicBrainz for example.
With this and about 2 other releases by the same company (which I also happen to own), there are discs with different prints on them between releases.
And at least one had a note discrepancy, but I hadn’t uploaded my own scans to the page yet, just my separate discs:
(I had co-operated with someone else who had the later versions and edited his scanned material prior to posting, but I wonder what I should do with my own, namely making a page for the 1st pressing and marking the current one as for the 2nd?)
So how do I go about it (and a few others) when the packaging more or less has minor differences but has the same barcode and everything?
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If anything is different, it’s a different release and if it doesn’t exist yet, you should create it.
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Yes, a different disc design makes certainly a new release, even if it has the same disc ID (manufacturer) and the same release date (same release date is a bit unlikely though).
BTW, 1st and 2nd release is not a good disambiguation - you can’t see this if you have your release in hands. Better describe the differences. 
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Nothing about the printed release date changed in any of the albums I have (all JP) that kept the catalog numbers even in the alternative packaging versions. The 3 albums in question here also never had any visible differentiators on either the Back or the Obi, aside from the discs themselves.
In this case though, literally the only difference is the print on the discs themselves, even what I’ve seen on the matrix runout sides is more or less the same thing (though it depends on copy).
And at least one booklet has a typo correction from the first in the credits list, but other than that, they’re identical in most every other way.
That alone would require a separate release. You should mention this fact in an annotation. For disambiguation, however, I would describe the discs. That’s easier to spot.
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Eventually did the same thing on Discogs (which I see you’re also a member on) for at least those two where I had direct contact with the guy who had the alternate disc version (and provided a clear matrix/runout scan).
And as opposed to this site (since the particular credit is applied to recordings rather than release), I can depict the typo correction on one release and the error on another, namely for https://www.discogs.com/release/35136440
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