[pkg-golang-devel] Epoch version for golang-github-gomodule-redigo-dev?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, 11:30 am Holger Levsen, <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:

>
> The technical problems I'm are aware of are that a.) version numbers
> (with and without epoch) need to be unique, so if you had 0:2.0.0-1
> you are not allowed to ever have 1:2.0.0-1 again. That's enforced
> by dak however.
>

That's not enforced by dak.  The only case it would be enforced is when
once try to upload the 1: version while the 0: is still published, which is
rare in the cases of epochs.

The other technical problem is that .deb filenames don't contain
> the epoch, which is a problem the archive


Which is the same problem as above, from my understanding.

There is that risk in having two filenames with different content across
history.


IIRC, there *used to* be an actual problem way back in some program that
couldn't handle the : in filenames, and that's why they are not present to
this day.  I argue that we could just put that : (or the %-encoded version,
to avoid accidentally ssh-ing somewhere...) and be done with whatever
problem.


The other problem, is that maintainers regularly forge to put the epoch
when writing version restrictions in d/control, but those are just bugs
that people should be aware of...



(Explicitly not drawing any conclusion here...)
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