Richard Laager wrote on 23/01/2022: > On 1/19/22 15:04, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> On 19.01.22 20:34, Richard Laager wrote: >>> 2. I create transitional binary packages in src:ntpsec: > > I got to thinking about this more. This won't work, because src:ntp is > 1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1 and src:ntpsec is 1.2.1+dfsg1-2. I would need an epoch > (of 2, since ntp already has an epoch of 1) on ntpsec in order for > src:ntpsec's transitional bin:ntp package to be newer than src:ntp's > bin:ntp package. > > It might be technically possible to build a binary package with > different versioning, but even if it is: 1) I don't know how,
One way it can be done is by creating d/changelog files which are specific to the binary package, e.g. debian/ntp.changelog debian/ntpdate.changelog (no idea if it can be a symlink) ... with their own version, different from the one in debian/changelog. Paride
