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Re: Accepted r-cran-rsdmx 1:0.5-11+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable



On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 03:35:02PM +0000, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> >  r-cran-rsdmx (1:0.5-11+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> >  .
> >    * Team upload.
> >    * d/watch: do not mangle upstream version number
> >    * use epoch for version
> >      Closes: #867925
> 
> I actually don't like the epoch here, and I think it’s a misuse of the concept
> (epochs are here for dealing with changes in upstream version numbering). I was
> waiting for release 0.6 to happen to fix this…
> 
> Anyways, no big deal.

Actually, I am wrong: epochs are very wrong for CRAN packages, because they
break dh-r which (I think) is then not able to generate the right versioned
dependency…

Until dh-r adds support for this, please stop adding epochs.

Best,

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