Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging repositories
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > What exactly is your use case you feel this is essential for?
>
> I think this discussion is in danger of going round in circles.
> I'm going to leave it here and let Raphael get on with it.
I understand Ron's logic and there's certainly value in questioning the
need for something. But this is always a question of cost/value.
Even if we don't have an immediate need for this property, the problem
is that we can't always envision all the ways people will want to use
the repositories (isn't that what you were trying to tell me about
how upstream can use git?) and I'm pretty sure that dropping the epoch
will be annoying to someone at some point. And the cost of not dropping
the epoch is not very high.
YMMV.
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