On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 01:31:54PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > In doing SRU reviews today, I came across LP: #1889106 which is a > request for a no-change rebuild to bump the version so it beats the > versions presented in previous releases. > > The problem is real, but it seems suboptimal to me to keep fixing it > this way. We'll need to keep SRUing chromium-browser to Focal (and later > releases presumably). Every time we do that, all users (who have the > transitional package) get yet another update to download, even if it is > small. And every time it takes both Olivier's and the SRU team's time. > > Would an epoch bump be a better option here? Debian doesn't currently > carry a package with that name, so we're already diverged enough that I > don't forsee a problem from there.
I agree that an epoch bump on the transitional .deb in focal is a reasonable solution for this issue. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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