On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 09:48:36PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > Dale> Epochs are not, were never, intended to be used for this > > Dale> purpose. They are only for dealing with upstream renumbering > > Dale> that would cause conflicts. > > > > I thought this was all about the upstream releasing > > pre-releases with versions that would not order right for Debian? If > > that is indeed the case, then this is precisely what epochs were > > designed for. > > I like the way that the ``clever'' hack of sticking R on the end of libc6's > version, confused the hell out of APT. Due to a bug in apt, not a bug in the logic. => > Well, it made _me_ laugh :-) > > I wonder if an epoch would have caused the same problem... I've watched this discussion. I have formed the opinion that using an epoch in this case was not the right way to do it. The r will serve for the moment, and future versions should be handled better I hope. I hope.
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