[Pkg-electronics-devel] gnucap_20230214-dev-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Bdale Garbee]

Felix Salfelder <felix at salfelder.org> writes:

> NB2: Somehow there is an epoch involved in the package version. To me
> this seems to be a mistake. I'd love to remove it, but I'm not sure if
> this is permitted.

The epoch is not a mistake.  Looking at the changelog, it appears it was
added on 4 Nov 1999 when the upstream version moved from 021 to 0.25.
There was an opportunity when the package was renamed in 2001 from acs
to gnucap to consider starting the epoch over again, but that was not
done, and unfortunately ... for a given package name, once you've used
an epoch, you can never stop using an epoch.

I see that you made the last upload of the package as a DM.  Am I
correct that the problem you're having uploading again is just that
moving to experimental requires NEW processing and you can't do that as
a DM?  

Bdale
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