Re: ayatana-indicator-messages: bump epoch in package version from <none> to 1
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 8:47 AM Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org> wrote:
> Yeah, I am aware of that possibility. However, I don't really feel
> like inheriting the versioning from the Ubuntu package (year.month) in
> the Debian package and be forced to carry that one along with me in
> the future forever...
>
> I'd rather use the upstream version (of ayatana-indicator-messages)
> and be done with it.
What you're asking is unusual because:
1. You *are* the upstream maintainer and control its version numbering.
2. You have forked the old unmaintained Ubuntu project.
3. You explicitly are choosing to take over the Ubuntu binary packages.
Therefore, it seems pretty easy to me for you to just bump the
upstream version in its next release from 0.9.0 to 13.11.0 (or 14.0 or
14.9.0 or whatever higher number). Blame Ubuntu in your release notes.
That seems like the least complex way to handle this. No epochs. No
version skew between upstream and Debian. No version skew between the
Debian source package and the binary packages. No version skew between
Debian and Ubuntu. No tricky version number mangling in debian/rules.
Version numbers are cheap. It's really not a big deal to bump your
version from 0.9 to 14. After that, you don't have any obligation to
do year.month versioning.
Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha
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