Raising the epoch of the 'prboom-plus' package, turning it into a transitional package

[Stephen Kitt]

Hi Fabian,

Le 23/08/2021 10:53, Fabian Greffrath a écrit :
> in the short term, I'd like to replace the prboom-plus Doom engine in
> Debian with its more actively developed fork dsda-doom. While
> developement of the former has mostly stagnated (granted, it had its
> 2.6.1um release earlier this month), the latter pioneered with new
> features like the introduction of the MBF21 modding standard and
> DSDehacked (aka unlimited everything). Apart from that, it also keeps
> demo compatibility as its highest goal, has added support for Heretic
> and Hexen and has the vibrant DSDA speedrunning community behind it.
> 
> The downside is that dsda-coom introduced a new versioning scheme which
> is currently at v0.21.0, whereas prboom-plus is already at 2.6.1um. To
> provide for an easy upgrade path for prboom-plus users, I'd like to
> introduce the dsda-doom package with an epoch. Since prboom-plus
> already has epoch 2, this would necessarily be epoch 3.

I might be missing something, but I don’t think a new package needs an 
epoch just because it is intended to replace an existing package with an 
epoch. The dsda-doom source package could be versioned at 0.21.0, 
building a 0.21.0 dsda-doom package and a 2:whatever (later than 
2.6.1um) or 3:0.21.0 prboom-plus transitional package.

Regards,

Stephen