On 12.12.21 19:22, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
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.
Yeah, I think this is the way to go. Especially since this also affects other distros which will also have the same issue.
If ayatana-indicator-messages is the natural successor of indicator-messages it should just make sure to have a higher (upstream) version number.
And there is prior art here. E.g. systemd bumped it's version bumper from v44 to v183 after it had merged the udev sources (which at that point were at version v182).
Regards, Michael
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