Quoting Jeremy Bicha (2018-09-26 15:47:38) > Emailing both debian-devel and the Debian GNOME mailing list. > > I am requesting project approval for me to upload gnome-calculator > with an epoch. > > Five years ago, gcalctool 6.4 was renamed to gnome-calculator and > renumbered to 3.8. This seemed like a clear case for an epoch since > this was a permanent change in the version numbering scheme. > > I made this change in the Debian VCS and uploaded it to Ubuntu. At the > time I did not have upload rights to Debian and Ubuntu has deadlines. > > A month later, a Debian GNOME team member recognized that we could use > a dh_gencontrol hack [1] to only add the epoch to the gcalctool > transitional package and we didn't need an epoch for gnome-calculator. > Similarly, we could have used this hack for many of the gnome-games > packages when they were split into separate source packages but we > didn't because we uploaded them before we made this change. (The > version numbering didn't change but gnome-games had an epoch we didn't > need to carry to the new packages.) > > More recently, I have worked to reduce the difference between Debian > and Ubuntu packaging for many GNOME packages. It gets very tedious to > need to upload gnome-calculator in Debian and then do a separate > upload in Ubuntu (along with all the required Vcs merging, updating > and tagging) just to add the epoch in Ubuntu. It would be a lot nicer > if I could just sync the Debian package to Ubuntu. > > So is it appropriate to bump an epoch in Debian to match an important > downstream's epoch? Please no: Don't adopt in Debian mistakes done in downstream distros. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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