On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Christian T. Steigies <c...@debian.org> wrote: > The package has migrated to testing, what else needs to be synced in Debian? > What is Launchpad?
Oops, I meant to write "can't be synced to Ubuntu". Launchpad is the service Ubuntu uses for bug tracking and many other things needed to build Ubuntu. > https://packages.qa.debian.org/m/moon-buggy.html > I do not know why the source package does not include the epoch in the dsc > filename, but thats how it came out of git buildpackage. Epochs are not included in filenames. >> By the way, I don't see any reason why you needed to add or bump the epoch >> here. > > I was asked to remove ESD support. The old source package contained two tar > balls, the "real" tarball plus a separate one with patches (upstream wanted > things separate). The build script was, say, not optimal, and I also made > the mistake of uploading it as debian native package. By bumping the epoch > and repackaging from scratch, I tried to fix all the mistakes I had made a > long time ago. What is the purpose of an epoch if I need to increase the > Debian version nevertheless? I don't know. Why do you think you needed to use an epoch? epochs are strongly disliked by many Debian Developers and we prefer to avoid them unless they are necessary. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
