Bug#950760: RFS: libbpf/0.0.6-1 -- eBPF helper library (development files)
Hi,
On 06-02-2020 00:07, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-02-05 at 22:42 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:22 PM Christian Barcenas
>> <christian@cbarcenas.com> wrote:
>>> Because this changes the versioning scheme from kernel releases
>>> (libbpf-dev and libbpf0 currently are at 5.4.13-1 in sid) to libbpf
>>> version numbers (0.0.6-1), the epoch needs to be incremented to 1 I
>>> believe.
>>
>> I had this doubt but 5.4.13-1 is the linux source version, and
>> libbpf0 has the version of 0.0.5. And since there is no separate
>> source for libbpf so will this not be considered as a new package
>> rather than a version change?
>
> No. There is currently a libbpf0 binary package. After the source
> package split, there will still be a libbpf0 binary package. The
> version of that binary package cannot go backwards.
>
> (The source package will indeed be NEW, but that's not the issue under
> discussion here.)
But, if I am correct, the source could be using a version without epoch
and only use the epoch in the binary package (which can be dropped if
libbpf0 is ever replaced by libbpf1).
Paul
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