On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Cédric Girard <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, > > I was wondering, as I am updating my PKGBUILDs to use the new VCS > features of pacman, if this specific case need an epoch increase for > those packages. > > Packages version were generated from the date (eg 20130401) and thus > will probably be bigger than new versions from the tags (eg > 0.3.1.32.gfb4117d). Thus an epoch increase should be needed to have a > correct behavior. > > But it seems most packagers are not increasing the epoch as they are > switching to this new versionning scheme. > > Is there a recommendation on this? > > -- > Cédric Girard > Yes, the correct thing to do would be bumping epoch for every new release of the PKGBUILD.
