Alec,
Is upstream planning to maintain their PPA after the packages are released into Debian? Or, will it be more like Gentoo, OpenSUSE, or Mageia, where the OpenCPN website simply links to the official packages?
https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/downloadopencpn.html
On Monday, July 1, 2024 5:06:54 PM MST Alec Leamas wrote:
> So have I also understood it.
>
> And this is more or less the situation. For all practical purposes the
> PPA is the current upstream packages, it's not some random packaging of
> opencpn. I have some control over both the PPA and the debian/ubuntu
> packages.
>
> And what we want to do is to switch the upstream versioning in a way
> which means the "next" version is lower than current version. The end
> game is that the PPA is proper pre-releases of the official packages,
> built from the same sources and debian/ directories.
>
> On other words, a rather good example on when an epoch makes sense.
>
> --alec
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