Re: Debian versioning question

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>]

On 2023-11-10 "Preuße, Hilmar" <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 10.11.2023 03:10, Wookey wrote:
>> I think your options are
>> 1) add an epoch (which exists to deal with this sort of problem)
>> 
> Well, would like to avoid it, if possible.

I think it is also not the right solutions, epochs are imho intended to
fix one-off errors, but this is problem recurring with every non-major
release.

[...]
>> 3) upload a 'nobbled' version number, which is often done to deal
>>     with this sort of temporary issue: 1.3.8a+really1.3.8+dfsg-1
>>     dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8a+dfsg lt 1.3.8a+really1.3.8+dfsg; echo $?
>> 
> You mean upload the 1.3.8a as 1.3.8+really1.3.8a, 1.3.8+really1.3.8b,
> 1.3.8+really1.3.8c etc. until we are at 1.3.9 und we can return to normal
> versioning?

>> I'd probably go with option 3 in this case. Ugly but temporary.
>> 
> Sounds like an option for now. Thanks!

I think 1.3.8-a+dfsg-1 would work and you could swith to ~dfsg with
1.3.9 like Mattia suggested:
ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions '1.3.8+dfsg-8' '<<' 1.3.8-a+dfsg-1 && echo yes
yes
ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8-a+dfsg-2 '<<' 1.3.8-b+dfsg-1 && echo yes
yes
ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8-b+dfsg-3 '<<' 1.3.9~dfsg-1 && echo yes
yes
ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.9~dfsg-3 '<<' 1.3.9a~dfsg-1 && echo yes
yes

cu Andreas
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