print-manager and wacomtablet to Plasma

Justin Zobel justin.zobel at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 08:54:41 GMT 2023


On 1/11/23 19:19, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 8:44 AM Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
>
>     As discuccsed in Plasma meeting and just now with KDE gear release
>     spods, Plasma would like to take over releases of print-manager
>     and wacomtablet.  This means renumbering the tars from e.g. 23.08
>     to 5.80.0.
>
>
> Isn't this going to cause distributions all sorts of pain as package 
> managers are going to assume 23.08 > 5.80 and refuse to update?

Fedora has an epoch variable to cater for situations like this. I 
imagine most other distributions have something similar.

The 23.08 would be upgraded to 1:5.80.x.

>
>     Any issues?
>
>     Jonathan
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
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