[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1037192: sd: version is lower than in squeeze

[Blair Noctis]

On 2023-07-08 17:31, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2023 01:58:50 +0800 Blair Noctis <n at sail.ng> wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 Jun 2023 14:12:08 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Package: sd
>> > Version: 0.7.6-1
> 
>> > squeeze had a sd binary package built from (unrelated) src:sd at
>> > version 0.74-1 while bookworm has one built from src:rust-sd at
>> > version 0.7.6-1 which is lower, violating the archive property of
>> > monotonically increasing version numbers.
> 
>> TIL about that. Do you think I can use epoch here? Or should I change its name?
> 
> IMO that is one of the correct uses for an epoch, similar to git which also
> reused an old package name (probably predating the git version control).
> 
> Note that the upload needs to be done as 1:0.7.6-2, i.e. with increment of the
> Debian revision to avoid clashes in the .deb file name (in some cases the epoch
> is not part of the file name for historic reasons).

Thanks, I'll go for that.

> 
>> (Sorry about the late reply, the email didn't reach me.)
> 
> And if you don't Cc the submitter, I don't see your reply ;-)

Ha, I'm sending To both the submitter and bug at bugs.d.o so it will _definitely_
be seen ;)

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Sdrager,
Blair Noctis