Version number mismatches: 2.0 beta but actually 1.8.6

[殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan]

Ubuntu distribution: 15.04 Vivid
Package version: 2.0.0~beta2+isreally1.8.6-4ubuntu1

I am an Gradle maintainer in Debian and I am currently updating the "gradle" package. The Debian source package of "gradle" has build conflicts in groovy >= 2.0.0~, and in Ubuntu this causes error when building the package.

As the version tells, the version is actually 1.8.6-4ubuntu1, but why is it the case? Why is it not simply 1.8.6-4ubuntu1? Since there is already an "groovy2" package and the "groovy" package should remain version 1.x. I demand that the version of the "gradle" package returns to 1.8.6.

[Paul Tagliamonte (paultag)]

Groovy >= 2.0 is packaged as src:groovy2 - this package will never be >= 2.0.

Looks like we need an epoch (perhaps even in Debian) to unbreak this.

Triaging.

[Paul Tagliamonte (paultag)]

After looking further, this likely came from experimental - it's since been pulled.