Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped
- To: Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org>
- Cc: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>, Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped
- From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 11:50:18 +0100
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On Thu, 08 Feb 2018, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Is it also the case that today we implicitly require that all versions
> used in a source package name's history are unique even once the epochs
> are stripped off (e.g. a given $upstream-$debianrev must be unique and
> not differ only in the epoch)? If so then should policy say that
> explicitly and/or should lintian check/warn if it isn't?
Yes. Please file bugs for this. :)
Note however that such a lintian check should not consider changelog
entries indicating another source package name.
Cheers,
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