Re: Epoch bump for kernelshark
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 4:18 PM Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 03:17:10PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote:
> > On 5/23/21 8:34 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > And, as a result, upstream kernelshark is now at v2.0 but the Debian
> > > packaged version is at v2.9.1 and I will need to add an epoch to the
> > > version to package it directly from its new upstream repo.
> > >
> > > Current version: 2.9.1-1
> > > Proposed version: 1:2.0-1
> >
> > How close is upstream to 3.0? If not close, are they willing to bump to 3.0
> > anyway to avoid this versioning issue?
>
> And in the meantime, I recommend you use 2.0-1 as source version, and
> make the binary 2.9.1+really$(DEB_VERSION) (DEB_VERSION coming from
> /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk)
Thats a cool trick. Thanks.
I should have thought of this, you have previously given me this kind
of idea. ;-)
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Regards
Sudip
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