Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 10:53:04PM +0200, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
>> FTP masters rejected the upload of the new elisa 0.2.1-1 as the package >> has a lower version than the former Elisa project and they proposed >> bumping the epoch and reusing the name. > I don't find this reasonable to be honest. > Unless it has some other reasons than just "lower version". This causes a ton of headaches for the archive software. IIRC, I believe dak is rather unhappy about version numbers going backwards, and of course apt is going to have no idea what to do for a system that already has the previous package installed. Consider also systems like snapshot.debian.org and what they have to do to deal with this. It's basically a whole bunch of pain that can be relatively easily avoided and probably isn't worth chasing in every piece of software. Version numbers should be monotonically increasing, and I think it's reasonable for a lot of software to bake in the assumption that's the case. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
