On 10/20/2017 05:58 PM, Arno Schuring wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
> Thusly spoke fsmithred (fsmithred@??? on 2017-10-19 21:43 -0400):
>> I built debs from tremon's devuan/experimental branch. First I
>> uninstalled eudev from repo (with the 234 epoch) and reverted to
>> udev. (Had to specify the version of libudev1 to "downgrade" it.)
>>

>>     apt-get install udev libudev1=232-25+deb9u1

>
> This, of course, is expected.
>
>> Next test: Installed eudev from experimental repo
>> (232:3.2.2-devuan2.3) and then installed tremon's eudev from my
>> packages. (1:3.2.2-devuan2.4). They installed easily again. I did not
>> have to force dpkg to downgrade.
>
> Did you also test whether a subsequent upgrade (or dist-upgrade) tried
> to install a different version of udev/eudev/libudev again? Of course,
> the experimental version (with epoch 232) will always get installed,
> but without the experimental repo, the packages should stay at their
> installed version.
>
>

Not until a few seconds ago, and apt wants to install 220:3.2.2. I assume
we will remove that from the repo if we go with a lower epoch or no epoch,
so it shouldn't be an issue.

I don't know what happens when udev or its libudev1 gets an upgrade.

fsr