On 2023-11-10 "Preuße, Hilmar" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10.11.2023 03:10, Wookey wrote: >> I think your options are >> 1) add an epoch (which exists to deal with this sort of problem) >> > Well, would like to avoid it, if possible.
I think it is also not the right solutions, epochs are imho intended to fix one-off errors, but this is problem recurring with every non-major release. [...] >> 3) upload a 'nobbled' version number, which is often done to deal >> with this sort of temporary issue: 1.3.8a+really1.3.8+dfsg-1 >> dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8a+dfsg lt 1.3.8a+really1.3.8+dfsg; echo $? >> > You mean upload the 1.3.8a as 1.3.8+really1.3.8a, 1.3.8+really1.3.8b, > 1.3.8+really1.3.8c etc. until we are at 1.3.9 und we can return to normal > versioning? >> I'd probably go with option 3 in this case. Ugly but temporary. >> > Sounds like an option for now. Thanks! I think 1.3.8-a+dfsg-1 would work and you could swith to ~dfsg with 1.3.9 like Mattia suggested: ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions '1.3.8+dfsg-8' '<<' 1.3.8-a+dfsg-1 && echo yes yes ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8-a+dfsg-2 '<<' 1.3.8-b+dfsg-1 && echo yes yes ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8-b+dfsg-3 '<<' 1.3.9~dfsg-1 && echo yes yes ametzler@argenau:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.9~dfsg-3 '<<' 1.3.9a~dfsg-1 && echo yes yes cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
