[Merge] ~phd/ubuntu-dev-tools:phd-backportpackage-option-to-set-epoch into ubuntu-dev-tools:main

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Could you please describe a good use case for this?

Backporting a package already kind of implies you are bringing a newer version to a given repository, so I can't quite image what use bumping the epoch could have.
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