[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#1081645: Bug#1081645: gnustep-netclasses: new (old) version available

[Yavor Doganov]

Control: tags -1 = pending

Riccardo Mottola via pkg-GNUstep-maintainers wrote:
> Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > Alternatively, we can package it as 1.06.dfsg+really1.1.0-1 (as ugly
> > as it is) and keep this versioning scheme until upstream releases
> > 1.7.0 (or 2.x), whenever that happens.  This avoid the epoch bump and
> > an upstream bump (which I happen to find ugly or at least unnatural).
> > 
> > Alex, Riccardo, WDYT?
> 
> To be honest, TalkSoup netclasses is currently in maintenance mode, so
> no major release soon in sight. Bug fixes might jump 10 1.1.1 or 1.20 at
> most in forseeable future.

OK, we'll use the +really workaround then.

> WHy should upstream bump to 1.7? to me this looks like a Debian
> issue.

Latest pre-GAP release is 1.06 which dpkg considers higher than the
latest GAP release 1.1.0.  Apparently, for dpkg 06 == 6 and it's
always been like that.