• Bumping epoch and reusing package name "elisa"

    From Adam Borowski@21:1/5 to Russ Allbery on Mon Sep 24 22:10:02 2018
    On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 09:21:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
    Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> writes:
    Unless it has some other reasons than just "lower version".

    This causes a ton of headaches for the archive software. IIRC, I believe
    dak is rather unhappy about version numbers going backwards, and of course apt is going to have no idea what to do for a system that already has the previous package installed. [...] Version numbers should be monotonically increasing, and I think it's reasonable for a lot of software to bake in
    the assumption that's the case.

    Right. I made a note that when I'm going to throw my next tantrum, NMUing
    dpkg and apt to version 2147483647:zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... might be a lot of
    fun. TODO: check what's the longest allowed version length.

    (More seriously: with two techniques for non-monotonic versions, we don't
    need a third one.)


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