Debian packages can have epochs too. I’m not sure why the maintainers haven’t just bumped the epoch here. Maybe they’re expecting a 5.6.x release shortly that

Debian packages can have epochs too. I’m not sure why the maintainers haven’t just bumped the epoch here. Maybe they’re expecting a 5.6.x release shortly that fixes all these issues & don’t want to add an epoch for a very short term packaging issue?