Quoting Nilesh Patra (2022-08-19 17:45:57) > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 04:43:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, at 16:37, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Yadd (2022-08-19 10:21:17) > > >> some months ago, a bad upstream tag changed node-markdown-it version to > > >> 22.2.3 instead of 10.0.0. So I'd like to change node-markdown-it version > > >> into 1:13.0.1 > > > > > > Since upstream is already at 10, is it unlikely that they will reach 22 > > > in the foreseeable future? > > > > > > What I am getting at is that introducing an epoch is a pain *forever* > > > (all dependent packages must then *forever* remember to add "1:" prefix) > > > wheread converting the accidental too-high major version into > > > pseudo-epoch "22.really." will last only until upstream catches up. > > > > I agree, adding an epoch in this package doesn’t seem appropriate or necessary. > > JTFR - Upstream released 12.0.4 in 2020, and they have reached 13.0.1 _now_ (after two years) > Going by previous releases, the delta between one major release is atleast an year. Seems to me that roughly... 13 has so far lasted 4 months, 12 lasted 18 months, 11 lasted 5 months, 10 lasted 8 months, 9 lasted 2 months, 8 lasted 36 months. Let upstream be erratic for one-two Debian releases, and this issue might solve itself. > And so reaching to 22.2.3 will take a very long time as well, if not _forever_ > and that would mean keeping up with +really for several years. I do > not think tagging this along with really is much better than adding in an epoch. > (I personally find the former a bit more ugly for my taste) Neither "1:" nor "22.really." as prefix is beautiful, but as already stated the former is forever. > The only reverse-dependency of this package is "node-prosemirror-markdown" and so > it would not be too much work if an epoch is introduced. ...but it would be even less work to *not* introduce an epoch. Quoting Nilesh Patra (2022-08-19 18:21:14) > Is tagging this along for so many years really is more worthy than an epoch? What is worthy about introducing an epoch here? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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