Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

[Scott Kitterman]

On July 1, 2024 10:18:07 PM UTC, Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 02/07/2024 00:10, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>
>Hi Scott,
>
>> Upstream can change the versioning however they want.  They are upstream.  If
>> they don't care to fix it, then I think we assume they are fine with it and
>> leave it as is.
>
>
>But here the situation is that upstream do care and wants to fix it. But they 
>need our help (an epoch) to accomplish this to handle the legacy.
>
>We could be helpful, or not. Why not give a hand?
>

No.  That's us fixing it.  They can bump the version to whatever they want to 
address the issue.  Epochs are forever, so should be a last resort.

Scott K