On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:58:28PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst writes ("Re: Bug#891216: seconded 891216: Requre d-devel consultation for epoch bump"):
> > Incorrect epochs are a nuisance at best.
>
> The problem is that they are a permanent nuisance. This discussion
> was prompted when someone caused significant trouble by *only* bumping
> the epoch. (We have other text saying not to do that but I don't
> think that text would have prevented the error.)
They cause real issues, not just nuisances. Check out the whole mariadb
situation, where a totally wrong epoch bump caused both maintainer to
not maintain anything anymore and now the debian packages are
incompatible with the rest of the world (not to mention the many
silently broken dependencies that who know when somebody will notice
them, but there must be some).
(I believe the trouble Ian is referring to is much minor, and it's the
case where an useless epoch bump in debian caused the ubuntu autosync
to fail due to reuse of filename - which has been "fixed" differently in
policy by forbidding epoch-free-version reuse)
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