On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:16:13AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm going to reintroduce unversioned libnspr4 and libnss3 for various
> reasons. These packages used to exist in the Debian archive, but the
> last time they were seen was in sarge. The first release *not* including
> them was etch. This is quite some time ago.
>
> The versions they had by then had an epoch. Supposedly, to make the new
> versions greater than these, I have to add an epoch. But do I really
> need to care about making the new versions greater than these packages
> last seen 4 years ago? (sarge EOL was in 2008)
When fixing remaining insserv issues on my boxes recently, I found a woody
era gem. And that's an init script, not something harmless like an obsolete
library.
Dropping the epoch would cause mysterious failures, for no gains other than
some aesthetics. I'm afraid epochs are indeed forever.
--
“This is gonna be as easy as cheating on an ethics exam!”
-Cerise Brightmoon
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