On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:22 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:57:00PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Hmm, my upload got rejected for some version ... I've sent off some
> > mail to try figure out why.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:02 +0000, Debian Installer wrote:
> > > Rejected: libattr1-dev_2.4.36-1_i386.deb: old version (1:2.4.32-1.1)
> > in unstable >= new version (2.4.36-1) targeted at unstable.
> > > Rejected: libattr1_2.4.36-1_i386.deb: old version (1:2.4.32-1.1) in
> > unstable >= new version (2.4.36-1) targeted at unstable.
> > > Rejected: attr_2.4.36-1_i386.deb: old version (1:2.4.32-1.1) in
> > unstable >= new version (2.4.36-1) targeted at unstable.
> > > Rejected: attr_2.4.36-1.dsc: old version (1:2.4.32-1.1) in unstable >=
> > new version (2.4.36-1) targeted at unstable.
> > > 
> > > ===
> > > 
> > > If you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if the
> > > override file requires editing, reply to this email.
> 
> As reports of broken sid systems rose up, Andreas Barth NMUed
> your package yesterday in a 0-day NMU policy. He setup an epoch
> to the package version which IMHO is a bad thing now that we
> have the possibility of ~ in version strings. He could have used
> 2.4.35~is.2.4.32-0.1 instead of the ugly 1:2.4.32-1.1, because from
> now on, you are stuck with an epoch in your package versions.

Oh.  What is your recommendation on fixing this Andi?  How do I get
past this epoch that's been thown into my previously neat and tidy
version management, and back to the simple versioning model I had?

thanks.

-- 
Nathan


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