On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:31:45AM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > On 21 Mar 2021 14:20, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:06:01AM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > > > On 20 Mar 2021 00:09, Ivo De Decker wrote: > > > > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:25:01PM -0600, Al Stone wrote: > > > > > Please remove the version of gnucobol in unstable. Per upstream, > > > > > this version in not backwards compatible with any prior version. > > > > > I made a mistake in packaging it at all. > > > > > > > > > > An upload of the proper version (3.1.2) is being prepared. > > > > > > > > Removing a package from unstable and then uploading the same package > > > > with a > > > > lower version isn't possible. If you want to go back to version 3.x, > > > > you'll > > > > need to do an upload with a version higher than the current one. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Ivo > > > > > > Understood. My only option may be to increase the epoch. > > > > An epoch is not the only option, and it is the wrong option: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#epochs-should-be-used-sparingly > > Why are you assuming I have not read the documentation? ...
You wrote "My only option", which implied to me that you were not aware of the other option that is actually the recommended option. > Or that I do not know that that particular bit of Policy > does not exist? That is precisely why the word "may" > was used. I'm really getting tired of these sorts of assumptions that everyone is a native English speaker. I am not. My understanding of "only" is that it means "there is not any other". Fancy interactions between the words "only" and "may" are beyond my knowledge of the English language. > I'm really getting tired of these sorts of assumptions. > It would be much more useful to assume good intent on > the part of others. This is an impossible proposition when it comes across as if the other person is about to make an irreversible mistake, like adding an epoch without first getting consensus on debian-devel. cu Adrian
