[Please Cc: me when replying, I have difficulties reading debian-devel at this time - but I'll try.]
I want to setup an apt-compatible directory of my Biology packages <http://www.pasteur.fr/units/sis/debian/biology-en.html>, so that users can use apt to install them, without waiting the release of potato (where they will appear officially, at least for those who are in "main"). The problem is that I want the packages to be installable on slink, without forcing the users to live with the glibc 2.1 mess. I planned to have two directories, something like: deb ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/Debian/Biology stable deb ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/Debian/Biology unstable with two sets of packages, for slink (glibc 2.0) and potato (glibc 2.1). The problem is the versioning. How to choose the version numbers in the two sets so that users will automatically get the potato package when they will choose to replace 'stable' by 'unstable' (or when potato will become stable). I've read <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/ch-versio ns.html>. Should I choose an epoch of 1 for all the potato packages? -- http://www.debian.org/~bortz/
