Eric Blake writes: > Except when upstream version numbers go backwards. We'd have to adopt > something like Fedora's "epoch" numbering if we want our version numbers > to always be increasing (by bumping the epoch any time upstream versions > go backwards).
Oh please not. I've looked into this as I thought it would be helping a few things. The bummer is that once you've introduced that epoch part to any package, there is no way to drop it again. I'd rather keep a list of exceptions someplace for those rare cases where the versioning algorithm doesn't do the right thing. Actually, I'm already doing it for the Perl distributions to override dodgy information in metadata about dependencies. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf Blofeld V1.15B11: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada
