On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 6:39 PM Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > By reading #594672 and a quick skim over #551034, these seem to have > been the same project, but the version introduced later as dhcpcd5 was > a new major version with an incompatible redesign, which would break > on upgrade, that's why it was not packaged at the time using the same > source package. So to me it makes sense to avoid adding the epoch to > avoid automatic upgrades like it was avoided in the past, otherwise > people might expect a smooth upgrade path. Also for reference the old > dhcpcd was removed from Debian in 2014: > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dhcpcd.html
2016. > Unfortunately, even though this was long ago, there seems to still be > a short tail of such package installed on systems: > > https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=dhcpcd5 Most of these are likely the result of transitional dhcpcd5 pulling in dhcpcd. > > The bug seems to only affect your binary package dhcpcd, so > > maybe a possible option could be to move ressources provided by > > the dhcpcd package to dhcpcd5 and remove the dhcpcd package. It > > would avoid you the epoch bump and the hassle to handle the > > version bump from the old fork, but it also might confuse people > > using the package. What do you think? > > The only problem I see with leaving things as is, is that some users > might not notice they need to upgrade. It would be nice if we had some > way to notify of these kind of obsolete packages or upgrades. > > But if you end up deciding on adding the epoch, then yeah please, just > add it to the affected binary package (even though in this case that > matches the source package, so it's going to be sticking forever I guess > anyway :/). # Wheezy had (1:3.2.3-11+deb7u1) so reintroduce the epoch for one target. override_dh_gencontrol: dh_gencontrol --package=dhcpcd -- -v1:$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM_REVISION) dh_gencontrol --remaining-packages This is what I would do if the archive policy demands it. Won't affect transitional dhcpcd5 or dhcpcd-base. Martin-Éric
