Manuel and I recently salvaged the dutch source package, which builds four different Dutch language dictionary packages. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dutch The problem is that the source code comes from two different upstreams, with possibly distinct release schedules. Manuel and I would like to split this into two source packages, based on these two upstream source repositories: https://github.com/OpenTaal/opentaal-hunspell https://github.com/OpenTaal/opentaal-wordlist The current dutch package has an epoch for reasons that happened before we were involved with the package: 1:2.20.19+1-1. If we create a new source package named hunspell-nl, it would also need to have the same epoch. As I have never moved a binary package to a new source package, my question is two-fold. 1. Should I create an ITP for the new source package, even though the binary package it produces is not new? Something about creating an ITP that includes an epoch feels off to me. 2. When moving the binary package to a new source package, should the old changelog be preserved? It seems even weirder to me to have a one-line changelog that says “Initial release” that already contains an epoch. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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