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Re: Adding epoch to kworkflow package to correct a wrong upstream version



On 12/03/23 19:13, Peter Wienemann wrote:
On 12.03.23 18:48, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
Could lintian warn when a date based version is used?

Lintian already does this - see [0].

[0] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/f03fc15a45df4965e374b1e3a40c51cf6fe545ed/tags/n/new-package-uses-date-based-version-number.tag


Given than epochs are kind of a big deal, maybe that warning could be raised to the level of error (or added to ftp-master's autoreject tags), so that a package will be accepted only if that tag is explicitly overridden.

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci


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