Bug#554489: Version 2.8.8 of DBD::Pg released

[Jonathan Yu]

Hi Greg:

I notice you're the upstream maintainer of DBD::Pg (thanks!). In
Debian we have version 2.15 (which we believe to be the newest).

libdbd-pg-perl |     1.49-2 |     etch-m68k | source, m68k
libdbd-pg-perl |     1.49-2 |     oldstable | source, alpha, amd64,
arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libdbd-pg-perl | 1.49-2+etch1 | oldstable-proposed-updates | source,
alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390,
sparc
libdbd-pg-perl |    2.8.7-1 |        stable | source, alpha, amd64,
arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libdbd-pg-perl |   2.15.1-1 |       testing | source, amd64, hppa,
i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390,
sparc
libdbd-pg-perl |   2.15.1-1 |      unstable | source, alpha, amd64,
hppa, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel,
powerpc, s390, sparc

According to search.cpan.org, however, apparently you uploaded 2.8.8
after 2.15.1, which confuses Debian (since our version numbers
consider 2.15.1 > 2.8.8).

I'm not totally sure how we should proceed in this case -- we can bump
the "epoch" assuming you are going to linearly increase your versions
from 2.8.8 onward (2.8.9, 2.9.0, etc); however, the situation with the
2.15 version is confusing to me personally.

Note that version 2.8.7 (where you say that bug exists) only exists in
stable -- testing and unstable both have 2.15.1.

It perplexes me how this version even managed to index properly in
PAUSE -- I had always thought 2.8xx would be considered greater than
2.15xx (by PAUSE/Perl, which compare version numbers based on a
floating-point comparison).

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg at turnstep.com> wrote:
> Version 2.8.8 of DBD::Pg is now available on CPAN, which fixes the
> quote.c bug in 2.8.7
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