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 02:40 +0200
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On July 2, 2024 12:26:49 AM UTC, Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> wrote:
>Alec,
>
>On Monday, July 1, 2024 5:19:37 PM MST Alec Leamas wrote:
>> For Debian users we backport opencpn which works well. However, the
>> Ubuntu backport process is, well, interesting (been there, done that).
>> 
>> The PPA represents a much better way to publish backports to current
>> Ubuntu branches. But for this to work we need to reset the versioning so
>> it works together with the official stream from Debian.
>> 
>> Anyway, seems we have a emerging conclusion that an epoch is a correct
>> solution here.
>
>That adds some needed clarification.  I agree that in that circumstance, adding 
>an epoch is the best way forward.  It allows you to maintain the current 
>upstream program version number, while unifying the Debian, Ubuntu, and PPA 
>version numbers in such a way that packages from those repositories can be 
>used interchangeably.
>
I would suggest that you work with upstream on how they will version things in the future, so you aren't bumping the epoch every year.

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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