[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Epoch accept request for plasma-dialer and spacebar

[Soren Stoutner]

On Saturday, November 30, 2024 10:17:57 AM MST Marco Mattiolo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm co-maintaining with Arnaud the Debian packaging of the plasma-mobile
> shell and a few related apps, in order for Debian to be provide this
> additional graphical environment choice on mobile devices.
> 
> 
> Plasma-dialer is the phone app, while Spacebar is the SMS app inside the
> plasma-mobile shell.
> 
> Upstream developers of these 2 apps have recently moved [1][2][3]
> 
> from the KDE apps' release numbering (year.month.revision, like 23.01.0
> that is the version now in Debian stable and sid for both apps)
> 
> to the Plasma release numbering (major.intermediate.minor revision
> number, like 6.2.3 that is the Plasma version the Qt/KDE team has
> recently uploaded to sid).
> 
> 
> Therefore, the intended upgrade direction is from version 23.01.0 to the
> version 6.2.4, that isn't handled correctly by apt due to the new
> revision number being lower than the old one.
> 
> In order to fix the upgrade process, I would like to add an epoch to the
> version number. I think this is the only way to handle this correctly,
> but I'm not so experienced so any hint is welcome.
> 
> Is it fine for the Debian project to add the epoch to these 2 apps'
> version number?

I would agree that this is an appropriate use of an epoch, and I can’t think 
of any other way to handle the situation.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at debian.org
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