On Saturday, November 30, 2024 10:17:57 AM MST Marco Mattiolo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm co-maintaining with Arnaud the Debian packaging of the plasma-mobile > shell and a few related apps, in order for Debian to be provide this > additional graphical environment choice on mobile devices. > > > Plasma-dialer is the phone app, while Spacebar is the SMS app inside the > plasma-mobile shell. > > Upstream developers of these 2 apps have recently moved [1][2][3] > > from the KDE apps' release numbering (year.month.revision, like 23.01.0 > that is the version now in Debian stable and sid for both apps) > > to the Plasma release numbering (major.intermediate.minor revision > number, like 6.2.3 that is the Plasma version the Qt/KDE team has > recently uploaded to sid). > > > Therefore, the intended upgrade direction is from version 23.01.0 to the > version 6.2.4, that isn't handled correctly by apt due to the new > revision number being lower than the old one. > > In order to fix the upgrade process, I would like to add an epoch to the > version number. I think this is the only way to handle this correctly, > but I'm not so experienced so any hint is welcome. > > Is it fine for the Debian project to add the epoch to these 2 apps' > version number?
I would agree that this is an appropriate use of an epoch, and I can’t think of any other way to handle the situation. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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