On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 12:11:09PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 04:26:10PM -0600, Simon Quigley wrote: >> - since the version number of the old series (15.10-1) is higher than the new >> one (0.81-1), the epoch needs to be bumped (i.e. we should use 1:0.81-1).
There is an interesting hack where only the old package names need the epoch bump. See for instance https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-fonts/fonts-ubuntu.git/commit/?id=046b11af Thanks, Jeremy Bicha