Non-perpetuation of the llvm-toolchain epoch

Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org
Sat Aug 5 13:34:32 UTC 2017


Hi!

I've noticed that llvm-toolchain 6.0 is now in NEW which sadly
perpetuates the epoch from the older series. AFAICS the only reason
for that is that the source package name is llvm-toolchain-snapshot
instead of say llvm-toolchain-6.0, as it will become once it stops
being a snapshot. But the fact that it is a snapshot is already
reflected in the version.

All binary packages generated are versioned so using an epochless
version source name would cleanly get rid of the epoch. For 6.0 I
guess it could be asked to be rejected and then reuploaded, otherwise
this could be done for 7.0?

Please think of an epoch-free Debian, save the versions! :)

Thanks,
Guillem



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