Bug#889814: lintian: Improve long description of epoch-change-without-comment
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.73
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if the long description of epoch-change-without-comment
could document when it's appropriate to bump the epoch and ways to avoid
the epoch bump entirely.
I'm thinking of:
- upstream changed version numbering scheme in a way that makes the latest
version lower than the former one (i.e. switching from date-based
version to usual X.Y) => OK and that should really be the only reason
to use an epoch
- you want to revert to a lower version in unstable for a while => you
should rather use <last-version>+really<former-version> until you can
again upload the latest version.
Maybe others have more suggestions.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers oldoldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.30-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5
ii file 1:5.32-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-4+b1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.73-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.0-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.1-4+b1
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1
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