On 2023-07-08 17:31, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 01:58:50 +0800 Blair Noctis <n...@sail.ng> wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:12:08 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Package: sd >> > Version: 0.7.6-1 > >> > squeeze had a sd binary package built from (unrelated) src:sd at >> > version 0.74-1 while bookworm has one built from src:rust-sd at >> > version 0.7.6-1 which is lower, violating the archive property of >> > monotonically increasing version numbers. > >> TIL about that. Do you think I can use epoch here? Or should I change its >> name? > > IMO that is one of the correct uses for an epoch, similar to git which also > reused an old package name (probably predating the git version control). > > Note that the upload needs to be done as 1:0.7.6-2, i.e. with increment of the > Debian revision to avoid clashes in the .deb file name (in some cases the > epoch > is not part of the file name for historic reasons).
Thanks, I'll go for that. > >> (Sorry about the late reply, the email didn't reach me.) > > And if you don't Cc the submitter, I don't see your reply ;-) Ha, I'm sending To both the submitter and bug@bugs.d.o so it will _definitely_ be seen ;) -- Sdrager, Blair Noctis
