Hi Emilio,
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:27:55PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > Hence I propose to bump the epoch and introduce this versioning scheme:
> > sid: 0:11~2020.08.17
> > bullseye: 0:11~2020.08.17
> > and so on.
> A 0 epoch is equal to no epoch, so you need 1: here.
haha, right. I had this mail planned for some time but then wrote it rather
spontaniously when seeing a similar mail on -devel and then I forgot this detail
(which I was aware of)...
> btw why keep the dates? I'd just do something like 11-1, 10-3, 9-5... The date
> is still in the changelog if someone needs to look at it, but I don't think it
> conveys any special information here.
It makes it easier to see which suite has which content.
If I see buster has 10-3 I need to check d/changelog to see if I need to
update the package. If (I know that sid has 0:11~2020.08.20) and see that
buster has 0:10~2020.08.17 and I know the change in 0:11~2020.08.20 was
about stretch, I know - without looking - that I don't need to update
the buster package.
> Anyway that's up to you. The epoch sounds
> good to me to disentangle the updates as most of the time updates to d-s-s need
> to happen to older releases, which carry older versions of packages, which are
> no longer sustainable to maintain.
yup.
Thanks for your feedback!
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