Re: Epoch bump for golang-github-valyala-fasthttp

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 12/11/2021 16:26, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-11-12 at 10:55:26 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > On 12 November 2021 12:38:23 am IST, Guillem Jover <gjover@sipwise.com> wrote:
> > > The golang-github-valyala-fasthttp package used to have date-based
> > > release numbers (current Debian version 20160617-2). Upstream has
> > > since switched to semver (latest upstream version 1.31.0).
> > >
> > > So the version scheme has been reset, and unfortunately given that no
> > > prefix was used when initially packaging this, an epoch seems to be in
> > > order now.
> > >
> > > I'm planning on updating in the coming days to the latest upstream
> > > release and bump the version using an epoch.
> >
> > How about golang-github-valyala-fasthttp-v1 ?
> > Though it won't match import path, it can avoid the epoch.
>
> While interesting, I think this might be worse. I'm not a fan of
> epochs, but this is precisely the case they were intended for.

Indeed, I think an epoch bump here is sensible.

Cheers,
Emilio