Re: Epoch version for google-authenticator

[SZ Lin (林上智) <szlin@debian.org>]

Hi Scott,

Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> 於 2020年3月1日 週日 下午1:28寫道：
>
> On Sunday, March 1, 2020 12:06:13 AM EST SZ Lin (林上智) wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm working on fixing bugs (including RC) on google-authenticator[1] which
> > name should be "google-authenticator-libpam" instead.
> >
> > [1] https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/google-authenticator
> > [2] https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-libpam
> >
> > I intend to import the new upstream release, but the current upstream
> > version changed the versioning scheme and thus epoch is needed to avoid the
> > latest version lower than the previous one, as shown below.
> >
> > =====================
> > Previous version: 20170702-2
> > Proposed version: 1:1.08-1
> > =====================
> >
> > I've contacted the package maintainer in January but got no response so far.
> > So I plan to upload the package via the NMU process.
> >
> > Any feedback is welcome.
>
> I'm only commenting about the epoch, since I don't know enough about the
> situation to have an opinion on if doing this via NMU is appropriate.
>
> Since you say the package is incorrectly named, would it make more sense to
> rename the package now?  Then you wouldn't need an epoch at all.

Yes, it makes sense to me.

Thanks for your comment.

SZ

>
> Scott K