[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#734763: Please update libjs-jquery-cookie and use upstream numbering

[Jerome Charaoui]

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Le 2014-01-31 12:12, Daniel James a écrit :
> Hi Jerome,
> 
>> I think switching to upstream numbering is still possible. by 
>> using an epoch number. The new version number for
>> libjs-jquery-cookie would be 1:1.4.0 (epoch 1) which would be
>> more recent than 8-2 (epoch 0).
> 
> It may not be necessary to use an epoch just for galette, as
> galette appears to bundle its own copy of libjs-jquery-cookie in 
> /usr/share/galette/includes/jquery/jquery.cookie.js - according
> to:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/galette/filelist

While a number of web app maintainers in Debian seem to choose to do
that, it's explicitly discouraged by the Debian Policy, see section
4.13
(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles)

So this is actually a bug in galette (especially so once jquery-cookie
1.4.0 makes it in the archive).


> But then maybe there is a law that Debian binary package numbers
> can never go downwards...

Well, in this case, the package manager is the law, because it has to
decide wether a package is an upgrade or a downgrande over another
version of the same package. The version number is depended on for this.


- -- Jerome

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