Bug#690384: DEHS: ignore epoch when considering new upstream releases

[Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org>]

On 2012-10-30 16:52, Bart Martens wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 09:11:16AM +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > On 2012-10-13 15:36, Bart Martens wrote:
> > >On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 04:05:07PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > >>DEHS does not appear to allow for an epoch when considering
> > >>watch files for the watch columns on the DDPO.
> > >
> > >Do you have an example of where this goes wrong ?
> > >
> >
> > Sorry I did not reply sooner. This came about from a commit by tg in
> > the mediawiki package,
> > r382 "in contrast to uscan(1) DDPO DEHS needs the epoch mangled 
> > away"
> >
> >
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-mediawiki/mediawiki/trunk/debian/watch?r1=379&r2=382
>
> This looks fine on DDPO :
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?packages=mediawiki
> The upstream version number is green, meaning "up to date".

Well I would expect this, as the epoch is now being mangled away by 
that commit... but I see you have found a better example and reopened 
the bug already.

Thanks,


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