Re: Q: Ubuntu PPA induced version ordering mess.

[Scott Kitterman]

On July 1, 2024 11:25:59 PM UTC, Alec Leamas <leamas.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 02/07/2024 01:19, Alec Leamas wrote:
>
>> Let's drop this subthread, keeping eyes on the ball: what is a sane version?
>
>Looking at this from another point of view: is there any situation where an 
>epoch is appropriate?

Yes.  I don't think this is it.

A sane version is one that's higher than the last one.  If upstream wants the 
last one to include their versioning from non-Debian packages, they can do 
that.  If they don't want to, that's fine, but I don't think we should either 
then.

Scott K