[Pkg-security-team] Maintenance of aircrack-ng

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Samuel Henrique wrote:
> Are you saying that we should change upstream versioning (by appending a
> zero)? ​

Yes. epoch really break versioned dependencies hardly, it's usually better
to fudge with the version temporarily.

epochs are useful when upstream for example used "date based versioning"
(20161025) for a while and then released "1.0". Even when we upload a
newer version by mistake we often used tricks like "1.3+really1.2". This
sorts itself when 1.3.1 or 1.4 gets out.

> I think its better to bump epoch and use the version numbers as upstream
> do, without having to append a zero to each new release.

It's not to each new release, it's only necessary right now. When 1.2.1 or
1.3 is out, the new version will sort higher without the need for any
extra ".0".

Cheers,
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