On 12/10/18 11:41, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 11:17 +1100, William Grant wrote: >> On 12/10/18 08:21, Jim Popovitch wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm creating a PPA for some patched versions of Mailman at https://c >>> ode. >>> launchpad.net/~jimpop/+archive/ubuntu/mailman but LP is showing >>> "(Newer >>> version available)" for pkgs in the PPA. Is there something wrong >>> with >>> my versioning? > >> If you click on the link, you'll see that the current version in >> bionic is 1:2.1.26-1, while yours is 2.1.29~vhost- >> 0~1021~ubuntu18.04.1. The 1: at the start of the Ubuntu version is an >> "epoch", and it makes that version greater than any version without an >> epoch, so apt won't pick the version from your PPA. See the Debian >> Policy Manual[0] for a full description of the version syntax. > >> The best way to fix this is probably to add a 1: to the version >> template on https://code.launchpad.net/~jimpop/+recipe/mailman-vhost. >> But you should also check your debian/changelog[1], since it has an >> epoch of 2 rather than 1 and seems to be missing all the changelog >> entries from Ubuntu. > >> [0] >> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-ver >> sion >> [1] >> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jimpop/mailman/mailman-vhost-ppa-recipe/ >> view/head:/debian/changelog > > > > Thanks William, and Christian too. I'll change the epoch to a 1. I > always thought that on Debian the epoch 2 took priority over 1, but > perhaps I'm wrong on that. > > As for the change logs, I stripped out everything because of some > earlier build/parse errors, and I just failed to restore the full > contents.
Epoch 2 does take priority over epoch 1, but your recipe has a version
template of "{debupstream}-0~{revno}". The epoch isn't part of the
upstream version, so it isn't pulled across from the changelog.
William.
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