On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:21:37AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > The GNOME team intend to add an epoch to the babl and gegl libraries, > so I'm checking for consensus (Debian Policy §5.6.12.1). As usual with > epochs, this is a bad situation that I am trying to mitigate as much as > possible, rather than anything elegant or exemplary. > > babl and gegl are 2D image libraries used by GIMP and GNOME Photos.
> Historically, versions of these packages were shipped by the third-party > deb-multimedia.org apt repository. That would have been fine, except that > the maintainer(s) of deb-multimedia.org added an epoch to their versions. Another option: as these libs are used only by gimp and gnome-photos, you can add Breaks for the target version range. This would be ugly but will make the problem go away in a release or two as the old libs become non-installable. Meow. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ It's time to migrate your Imaginary Protocol from version 4i to 6i. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
