"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> writes: > If the upstream version is currently 1.2.3, and debian version is > something like 1.2.3-4, how about releasing Debian version > 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3-1 with a new "upstream" tarball with version > 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3. You avoid using an epoch and can continue > waiting on a real 1.2.4 from upstream.
That would give the impression that the source being packaged was “really” version 1.2.4 in some sense. I don't get the impression that's true here; the source is still version 1.2.3, just packaged in a different way. Assuming that's true, then I would append a conventional ‘.ds1’ or ‘.ds2’ etc. to the existing version, declaring the original source to be version ‘1.2.3.ds1’, to show it has been repackaged *and* should be considered later than ‘1.2.3’. Hence, the release would be version ‘1.2.3.ds1-1’. -- \ “True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to | `\ others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you | _o__) want.” —Larry Wall | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
