Re: Epoch bump for bcachefs-tools
On 26/04/2024 15:57, Jonathan Carter wrote:
Hi Debian Developers
In January, bcachefs[1] finally made it into the mainline Linux kernel as an
experimental filesystem in to Linux 6.7
In 2022 something odd happened and the versions releases were 23 and 24
(previously we had alpha versions in Debian that were just git snapshots) before
reverting to 1.x.x release tags.
We released those higher numbers in Debian, which means that the current version
in Debian, bcachefs-tools 1.7.0, has the upstream version number of 24~really1.7.0.
Since it's a filesystem (and experimental one at that), where the version number
is quite important for both tools and humans alike (who might not understand the
version number currently in use), I think it would be justified to bump the
epoch of this package.
I'm mailing debian-devel before commiting such an epoch bump, as per our
versioning policy[2].
Yesterday I made an upload with the 1.7.0 version to experimental, this version
uses significantly more rust code compared to the old versions. If it doesn't
manifest any major issues, I'd like to upload it to unstable along with the
epoch bump.
That sounds fine. If this was a temporary thing (oops, I uploaded 1.8.0 but I
have to revert to 1.7.0 since the new version requires kernel x.y) then +really
is fine. But in this situation, let's just add an epoch and avoid the +really
for the foreseeable future.
Cheers,
Emilio
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