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 01:40 +0200
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On July 1, 2024 11:25:59 PM UTC, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 02/07/2024 01:19, Alec Leamas wrote:
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>> Let's drop this subthread, keeping eyes on the ball: what is a sane version?
>
>Looking at this from another point of view: is there any situation where an epoch is appropriate?

Yes.  I don't think this is it.

A sane version is one that's higher than the last one.  If upstream wants the last one to include their versioning from non-Debian packages, they can do that.  If they don't want to, that's fine, but I don't think we should either then.

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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