Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

From	Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.
Date	2024-07-02 00:40 +0200
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On July 1, 2024 10:18:07 PM UTC, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 02/07/2024 00:10, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>
>Hi Scott,
>
>> Upstream can change the versioning however they want.  They are upstream.  If
>> they don't care to fix it, then I think we assume they are fine with it and
>> leave it as is.
>
>
>But here the situation is that upstream do care and wants to fix it. But they need our help (an epoch) to accomplish this to handle the legacy.
>
>We could be helpful, or not. Why not give a hand?
>

No.  That's us fixing it.  They can bump the version to whatever they want to address the issue.  Epochs are forever, so should be a last resort.

Scott K

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Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-07-02 00:40 +0200
  Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-07-02 01:00 +0200
    Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-07-02 01:20 +0200
      Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 01:40 +0200
        Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 02:10 +0200
          Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 02:30 +0200
            Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-07-02 02:40 +0200
        Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 02:20 +0200
          Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2024-07-02 12:10 +0200
        Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Jens Reyer <jens.reyer@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 07:00 +0200
        Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2024-07-02 20:50 +0200
          Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-07-03 10:20 +0200
            Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2024-07-03 12:30 +0200
      Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess. Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2024-07-02 01:40 +0200

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