Re: Raising the epoch of the 'prboom-plus' package, turning it into a transitional package

2021-08-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi Fabian, Le 23/08/2021 10:53, Fabian Greffrath a écrit : in the short term, I'd like to replace the prboom-plus Doom engine in Debian with its more actively developed fork dsda-doom. While developement of the former has mostly stagnated (granted, it had its 2.6.1um release earlier this month),

Re: Raising the epoch of the 'prboom-plus' package, turning it into a transitional package

2021-08-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 9:29 AM Simon McVittie wrote: > override_dh_gencontrol: > dh_gencontrol -pprboom-plus -- > -v3:$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM_REVISION) Using this technique you can even do entirely without bumping the epoch, using 2:2.6.1um+dsda$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM_REVISION)-..

Re: Raising the epoch of the 'prboom-plus' package, turning it into a transitional package

2021-08-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Stephen and Simon, Am 23.08.2021 11:28, schrieb Simon McVittie: Could you build dsda-doom as version 0.21.0-1 with no epoch, while attaching an epoch to only the prboom-plus transitional binary package? very good idea! I didn't even think about this possibility, but this is how I'll do it.

Re: Raising the epoch of the 'prboom-plus' package, turning it into a transitional package

2021-08-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 10:53:12 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > The downside is that dsda-coom introduced a new versioning scheme which > is currently at v0.21.0, whereas prboom-plus is already at 2.6.1um. To > provide for an easy upgrade path for prboom-plus users, I'd like to > introduce the dsd

Raising the epoch of the 'prboom-plus' package, turning it into a transitional package

2021-08-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, in the short term, I'd like to replace the prboom-plus Doom engine in Debian with its more actively developed fork dsda-doom. While developement of the former has mostly stagnated (granted, it had its 2.6.1um release earlier this month), the