Re: Bug#950760: RFS: libbpf/0.0.6-1 -- eBPF helper library (development files)
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:39 AM Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Am 06.02.20 um 09:22 schrieb Adam D. Barratt:
> > On 2020-02-06 08:12, Paul Gevers wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 06-02-2020 00:07, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> >>> 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?
> >>>
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>
> One other alternative could be, to ask your upstream to change the
> versioning scheme and instead of using 0.0.6, switch to 6.0.0 as first
> version number (which would be higher then 5.x)
> Other distros might have similar problems.
I think other distros already had the package split and are now using
the source from github. Atleast Fedora and Gentoo have done already.
Looks like Fedora solved the problem using epoch as can be seen in the
comment at https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libbpf/blob/f30/f/libbpf.spec#_15
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Regards
Sudip
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