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

[Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org>]

Hi,

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

Cheers,


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