Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.
On July 1, 2024 10:18:07 PM UTC, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 02/07/2024 00:10, Scott Kitterman wrote:
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>Hi Scott,
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>> Upstream can change the versioning however they want. They are upstream. If
>> they don't care to fix it, then I think we assume they are fine with it and
>> leave it as is.
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>But here the situation is that upstream do care and wants to fix it. But they need our help (an epoch) to accomplish this to handle the legacy.
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>We could be helpful, or not. Why not give a hand?
>
No. That's us fixing it. They can bump the version to whatever they want to address the issue. Epochs are forever, so should be a last resort.
Scott K
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