IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian GNU|Linux) <umlae...@debian.org> writes: > anyhow here's my 2¢: > according to you¹, upstream have simply botched their package > versioning, which i would consider *a bug*. > bugs cause pain.
AIUI the botching was done by whoever put the PPA together. If that's the same as upstream, fair enough, but it seemed to me (having glanced at the repo) that upstream has been using sane versions throughout. FWIW I'd say that people that installed from a PPA probably know they did that, so can be left to sort themselves out -- especially if they've been pulling Ubuntu PPAs into a Debian install. Well, at least they'll have followed some sort of HOWTO to get it installed. If you could get that HOWTO to be updated with a Debian section that points out that they'll need to remove the PPA as a source, and force ``downgrade'' the package to restore sanity, then that seems like it deals with the problem. It would probably be good to also document the fix on upstream's and/or Debian's wikis. Then you can cheerfully ignore the broken PPA versions. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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