Re: Package braa: Increment epoch in accordance with the Policy

Hi,

On 19/06/2026 09:01, Sven Geuer wrote:
> upstream's braa sources suffer from non-incremental version numbers:
> 0.82 < 0.9 < 0.9.1 according to the order of commits (don't rely on
> the order of tags displayed). The current packaging in Debian has
> version 0.82-7.
> 
> To be able to fix RC bug #1137251, I would like to increase the
> epoch to 1 and update the package to version 1:0.9.1.

You can change the version numbering slightly [1]: 'however, it may need to be reformatted to fit into the package management system’s format and comparison scheme.'

It looks like 0.82 was actually 0.8.2, so why not release 0.9.1 with the reversed logic as '0.91+actually0.9.1'?
The package is at 0.x, so I guess there will be time to introduce semver [2] version numbers until 1.x gets released.

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#version
[2] https://semver.org/

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