> I recently followed another distribution's lead and made some
assumptions
> about the version numbering of a package I maintain, mt-daapd.
>
> I released a bugfix in the form of:
>
> mt-daapd-0.9-0.4.1696.fc8
> mt-daapd-0.9-0.2.1696.fc9
> mt-daapd-0.9-0.2.1696.el5
>
> I had thought that the next release would be in the 0.9 series.
>
> Now, the bugfix is upstream and the author has released the next version
> of mt-daapd. Unfortunately, this version is 0.2.4.2, which is lower that
> the versions above. I'd like to supercede the packages above with this
> "lower" version number.
>
> What is the best way to handle this? I'd like to avoid using the 0.9
> version, as the developer has not moved to this yet upstream.
Epoch bump?
As far as I know, the epoch does not override the version for the
update path.
Mike