Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2025-05-16 Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Soren Stoutner writes: >> On Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:56:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D >> Steeves >> wrote: >>> "adjusting" the epoch also requires discussion, and consensus, on -devel >> As far as I know, nobody is proposing adding or adjus

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-17 Thread Holger Levsen
hi, seriosuly, I would not bother about the epoch, and just live with it. iirc 10% of the archive has an epoch, so meh. Removing over two releases is risky and errorprone, eg. you need to make sure not to reuse versions etc pp. An epoch might be a bit ugly, but overall it's completly harmless.

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-16 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Friday, May 16, 2025 1:51:49 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi Soren, > > Soren Stoutner writes: > > On Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:56:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D > > Steeves> > > wrote: > >> "adjusting" the epoch also requires discussion, and consensus, on -d

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi Soren, Soren Stoutner writes: > On Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:56:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D > Steeves > wrote: >> "adjusting" the epoch also requires discussion, and consensus, on -devel > > As far as I know, nobody is proposing adding or adjusting any epochs. All of > these bi

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, May 15, 2025 3:56:50 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > "adjusting" the epoch also requires discussion, and consensus, on -devel As far as I know, nobody is proposing adding or adjusting any epochs. All of these binary packages are going to end up with the same e

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Soren Stoutner writes: > On Thursday, May 15, 2025 1:07:32 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D > Steeves > wrote: >> Soren Stoutner writes: >> > Manuel and I would like to split this into two source packages, based on >> > these two upstream source repositories: >> > >> > https://github.com/

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, May 15, 2025 1:54:36 PM Mountain Standard Time Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2025 at 13:39:32 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: > >The changelog indeed says the current epoch is 1: > > > >https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dutch/-/blob/master/debian/changelog? > >ref_type=heads#L1 >

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 15 May 2025 at 13:39:32 -0700, Soren Stoutner wrote: The changelog indeed says the current epoch is 1: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dutch/-/blob/master/debian/changelog? ref_type=heads#L1 Also, tracker.debian.org says the same thing: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dutch That's the

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Thursday, May 15, 2025 1:07:32 PM Mountain Standard Time Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Soren Stoutner writes: > > Manuel and I would like to split this into two source packages, based on > > these two upstream source repositories: > > > > https://github.com/OpenTaal/opentaal-hunspell > > > > h

Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

2025-05-15 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Soren Stoutner writes: > Manuel and I would like to split this into two source packages, based on > these > two upstream source repositories: > > https://github.com/OpenTaal/opentaal-hunspell > > https://github.com/OpenTaal/opentaal-wordlist > > The current dutch package has an epoch for reason