On 11-08-05 at 02:05pm, Till Kamppeter wrote: > I am introducing Color Management in Ubuntu and therefore I have > updated the Argyll package. There I have discovered, that there are > two source Debian packages, argyll and libicc which are based on the > same source tarball. I want to merge these two packages to make > maintenance easier. > > Problem is that the version number used for libicc is the API/ABI > version number 2.12 which is much higher than the 1.3.3 of the > upstream tarball. Ho should I proceed to make the resulting package > being well accepted by Debian? Should I introduce an epoch? If you mean how to number those two packages in _Debian_, then there are multiple sensible approaches, all of which should be done by the package maintainer. Luckily they are the same for both packages, so the sensible approach is to file bugreports against those packages and/or get in touch directly with Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org>. If you mean how to number those two packages in _Ubuntu_ differently from Debian so as to ease potential later adoption by Debian, I would not recommend you to do that at all. In my opinion you should treat Ubuntu as downstream of Debian: For any matters involving more than local context work with upstream if at all possible rather than fork! Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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