On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:29:35PM +1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > Source: request-tracker4 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > I need to build a custom RT package to include some custom patches that > haven't been accepted upstream yet. When I do that, I set an epoch on > the Debian version to ensure that we don't accidentally upgrade to a > newer version from Debian. With the 4.4.x packages this has caused > RT to think the version is 0.0.0, which causes a bunch of issues. > > The attached patch modifies debian/patches/debian_version.diff to strip > off an epoch, if present, and the Debian patch level from the version > presented by RT. If you want to keep the Debian patch level, then > remove > the first call to sed.
Thanks, though with both sed calls there would be no point in applying the change at all as we're back to the plain upstream version :) > I also note that the same diff currently sets the date to 2016 in the > footer. The date is already 2016 in the version in stretch, so that looks correct? Cheers, Dominic.