On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 11:01:30PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-04-02 at 15:41, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > On Mon, 02 Apr 2018 at 20:30:54 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > >> I don't understand why everybody is so afraid of an epoch, but ok. > > > > It's a source of confusion (and confusing side-effects) that, once > > added, can never be removed, however many upstream releases might > > happen. > > I thought that in theory, if the upstream version later increases to the > point where it would sort above the with-an-epoch version (whether > because it's a date-based version and new versions keep coming out all > the way into the next millennium, or because the upstream version scheme > changes again, or whatever else), the epoch could potentially be dropped > without introducing issues. Is that wrong?
Yes. There's an implicit 0 epoch in any version that doesn't have an explicit epoch. Therefore, it doesn't matter what contortions the upstream version does. Returning to an implicit 0 epoch would sort lower than the previous explicit epoch. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/91BF BF4D 6956 BD5D F7B7 2D23 DFE6 91AE 331B A3DB
