On 16 February 2018 at 02:00, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > Given that other parts of the original thread have started to repeat > the same that has been discussed in previous referenced discussions, > or even within this thread iteration, I've sat down and written a > dpkg FAQ entry: > > > <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q:_What_are_version_epochs_and_why_and_when_are_they_needed.3F> > > This subthread though, prompted me to come up with something new > though. :) >
BTW, the othere day, Dan Watkins and I discovered twiddle-wakka version comparison operator in ruby, also known as pessimistic version comparison. For example ~> 4.0.1 in ruby means >> 4.0.1 && << 5.0.0, as in, it limits comparison within a single series. Perhaps, we also need something like that, to limit comparisons within a given epoch only. I guess we could adopt twiddle-wakka like syntax [1], to negate things as you suggest. -- Regards, Dimitri. [1] making twiddle-wakka work in dpkg, differently from ruby, should be an explicit design goal. </troll>
