Re: Bug#950760: RFS: libbpf/0.0.6-1 -- eBPF helper library (development files)
On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 22:42 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:22 PM Christian Barcenas
> <christian@cbarcenas.com> wrote:
> > Because this changes the versioning scheme from kernel releases
> > (libbpf-dev and libbpf0 currently are at 5.4.13-1 in sid) to libbpf
> > version numbers (0.0.6-1), the epoch needs to be incremented to 1 I
> > believe.
>
> I had this doubt but 5.4.13-1 is the linux source version, and
> libbpf0 has the version of 0.0.5. And since there is no separate
> source for libbpf so will this not be considered as a new package
> rather than a version change?
No. There is currently a libbpf0 binary package. After the source
package split, there will still be a libbpf0 binary package. The
version of that binary package cannot go backwards.
(The source package will indeed be NEW, but that's not the issue under
discussion here.)
Regards,
Adam
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