On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:51:27PM +0100, Markus Demleitner wrote: > For the luakit package that I'm trying to get back into Debian, I'd > like to use an epoch in the version. > > Here's the story: Originally (and still reflected on > http://luakit.org), luakit used a date-based versioning scheme. In > > Meanwhile (and that's not yet reflected on luakit.org), there are > releases on Github (https://github.com/luakit/luakit/releases) that > follow a major.minor scheme, and the upstream maintainer has > confirmed they want to keep that scheme in the future.
Sounds reasonable to me, with that being the original goal of epochs. However, please use 1: and not 2: like what upstream seems to have used… -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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