On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 05:22:25PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Matt Zagrabelny] > > I've grepped the d-d list, but didn't find any threads regarding > > fixing epochs in package versions. > > This does come up occasionally.
I was unaware of this thing and I'm sure I'm overlooking something, so can someone give a simple example of actual problems introduced by using epochs? Other than "it looks ugly", "some filesystems don't like : and %" and "people write their own algorithms to compare version numbers", which have already been mentioned. Is this documented in the wiki or somewhere else? Berto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130508101954.ga24...@igalia.com
