Hi

SZ Lin (林上智) <sz...@debian.org> 於 2020年3月5日 週四 下午6:39寫道:
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> Hi Scott,
>
> Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> 於 2020年3月1日 週日 下午1:28寫道:
> >
> > On Sunday, March 1, 2020 12:06:13 AM EST SZ Lin (林上智) wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm working on fixing bugs (including RC) on google-authenticator[1] which
> > > name should be "google-authenticator-libpam" instead.
> > >
> > > [1] https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/google-authenticator
> > > [2] https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-libpam
> > >
> > > I intend to import the new upstream release, but the current upstream
> > > version changed the versioning scheme and thus epoch is needed to avoid 
> > > the
> > > latest version lower than the previous one, as shown below.
> > >
> > > =====================
> > > Previous version: 20170702-2
> > > Proposed version: 1:1.08-1
> > > =====================
> > >
> > > I've contacted the package maintainer in January but got no response so 
> > > far.
> > > So I plan to upload the package via the NMU process.
> > >
> > > Any feedback is welcome.
> >
> > I'm only commenting about the epoch, since I don't know enough about the
> > situation to have an opinion on if doing this via NMU is appropriate.
> >
> > Since you say the package is incorrectly named, would it make more sense to
> > rename the package now?  Then you wouldn't need an epoch at all.
>
> Yes, it makes sense to me.
>
> Thanks for your comment.

Uh, NAK.

Since the name of the binary package is not changed, but the
source package name instead, I think the epoch is still needed in this case.

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Previous version: 20170702-2
Proposed version: 1:1.08-1
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SZ

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> SZ
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> > Scott K

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