Bug#953146: texlive-extra : bad version number
It appears that an extra "0" has been inserted into the version number
of packages derived from the "texlive-extra" source package:
texlive-base 2019.20200302-1
texlive-extra-utils 2019.202000302-1
texlive-font-utils 2019.202000302-1
texlive-fonts-recommended 2019.20200302-1
texlive-lang-english 2019.20200302-1
texlive-lang-greek 2019.20200302-1
texlive-latex-base 2019.20200302-1
texlive-latex-extra 2019.202000302-1
texlive-latex-recommended 2019.20200302-1
texlive-luatex 2019.20200302-1
texlive-pictures 2019.20200302-1
texlive-plain-generic 2019.202000302-1
texlive-pstricks 2019.202000302-1
texlive-publishers 2019.202000302-1
texlive-science 2019.202000302-1
https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/texlive-extra
> if I drop the 0 the version **decreases**. One would need to add an
> epoch 1:200... but I don't want to do this, because I am preparing
> 2020 packages now, and with the switch to 2020 I can revert the error.
What if you just re-release the same packages with a phony version
number, like "2020.20200101-1" or "2020.20200303-1"? Won't that sort
correctly?
-- Ian Bruce
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