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[Jim Popovitch <jimpop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 11:17 +1100, William Grant wrote:
> On 12/10/18 08:21, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm creating a PPA for some patched versions of Mailman at https://c
> > ode.
> > launchpad.net/~jimpop/+archive/ubuntu/mailman but LP is showing
> > "(Newer
> > version available)" for pkgs in the PPA.  Is there something wrong
> > with
> > my versioning?
> 
> If you click on the link, you'll see that the current version in
> bionic is 1:2.1.26-1, while yours is 2.1.29~vhost-
> 0~1021~ubuntu18.04.1. The 1: at the start of the Ubuntu version is an
> "epoch", and it makes that version greater than any version without an
> epoch, so apt won't pick the version from your PPA. See the Debian
> Policy Manual[0] for a full description of the version syntax.
> 
> The best way to fix this is probably to add a 1: to the version
> template on https://code.launchpad.net/~jimpop/+recipe/mailman-vhost.
> But you should also check your debian/changelog[1], since it has an
> epoch of 2 rather than 1 and seems to be missing all the changelog
> entries from Ubuntu.
> 
> [0]
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-ver
> sion
> [1]
> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jimpop/mailman/mailman-vhost-ppa-recipe/
> view/head:/debian/changelog
> 


Thanks William, and Christian too.  I'll change the epoch to a 1.  I
always thought that on Debian the epoch 2 took priority over 1, but
perhaps I'm wrong on that.

As for the change logs, I stripped out everything because of some
earlier build/parse errors, and I just failed to restore the full
contents.

Thank you again,

- -Jim P.

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