Re: Epoch version for google-authenticator

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 01:06:13PM +0800, 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
> =====================

Have you considered something like 20200301+1.08-1 ?