On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 4:18 PM Mattia Rizzolo <mat...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 03:17:10PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: > > On 5/23/21 8:34 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > And, as a result, upstream kernelshark is now at v2.0 but the Debian > > > packaged version is at v2.9.1 and I will need to add an epoch to the > > > version to package it directly from its new upstream repo. > > > > > > Current version: 2.9.1-1 > > > Proposed version: 1:2.0-1 > > > > How close is upstream to 3.0? If not close, are they willing to bump to 3.0 > > anyway to avoid this versioning issue? > > And in the meantime, I recommend you use 2.0-1 as source version, and > make the binary 2.9.1+really$(DEB_VERSION) (DEB_VERSION coming from > /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk)
Thats a cool trick. Thanks. I should have thought of this, you have previously given me this kind of idea. ;-) -- Regards Sudip