Hi! On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 12:12:11 +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.73 > Severity: wishlist
> It would be nice if the long description of epoch-change-without-comment > could document when it's appropriate to bump the epoch and ways to avoid > the epoch bump entirely. > > I'm thinking of: > > - upstream changed version numbering scheme in a way that makes the latest > version lower than the former one (i.e. switching from date-based > version to usual X.Y) => OK and that should really be the only reason > to use an epoch > > - you want to revert to a lower version in unstable for a while => you > should rather use <last-version>+really<former-version> until you can > again upload the latest version. > > Maybe others have more suggestions. Yeahm, I wrote about this some time ago at: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00203.html> Also something I forgot to add there, but Clint Adams mentioned on a later reply, is the problem with breaking any versioned dependency, so that also needs careful review and a possible transition. Thanks, Guillem
