On 02/07/2024 02:31, Scott Kitterman wrote:
On July 2, 2024 12:26:49 AM UTC, Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> wrote:
That adds some needed clarification. I agree that in that circumstance, adding an epoch is the best way forward. It allows you to maintain the current upstream program version number, while unifying the Debian, Ubuntu, and PPA version numbers in such a way that packages from those repositories can be used interchangeably.I would suggest that you work with upstream on how they will version things in the future, so you aren't bumping the epoch every year.
Agreed.I have many hats here, one of them being the upstream one. There is a clear vision how this should work in the future; this vision does not include any further epoch bumps.
--alec