On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:31:30AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > > 1) use 2.0.0+really1.8.3 pattern for our Debian package version > As it seems not unreasonable to expect the upstream version to go past > 2.0.0 in the not infinite future, this is the approach I would take.
well. "not unreasonable" and "not infinite future" could very likely
turn into carrying 2.0.0+really1.8.3 for the next 20 years...
> > 2) introduce an epoch
> Because this you have to carry forever.
...which more or less is the same time span as the above.
Also I find 1:1.8.3 not ugly at all, for most use cases this is 1.8.3
so I would go with that. And if someone complains about the 1: epoch
one can always point to the upstream issue explaining why this has
happened.
Oh, and I do find 2.0.0+really1.8.3 and even more 2.0.0+really1.8.4+gitXYZ
much more ugly than 1:1.8.3 or 1:1.8.3+gitXYZ
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