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Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.




On July 1, 2024 11:25:59 PM UTC, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 02/07/2024 01:19, Alec Leamas wrote:
>
>> Let's drop this subthread, keeping eyes on the ball: what is a sane version?
>
>Looking at this from another point of view: is there any situation where an epoch is appropriate?

Yes.  I don't think this is it.

A sane version is one that's higher than the last one.  If upstream wants the last one to include their versioning from non-Debian packages, they can do that.  If they don't want to, that's fine, but I don't think we should either then.

Scott K


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