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

Hi Sven

Am 19.06.26 um 09:20 schrieb Roland Clobus:
> 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.
Have you contacted upstream about this issue?
Debian might not be the only distribution which is affected by this and 
maybe they are willing to do a 0.90.1 release (and hopefully keep it in 
mind when doing future releases).

Regards,
Michael

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