❦ 14 février 2018 15:15 -0500, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> : >>In the example above, while in Wheezy, the dependency was perfectly >>correct. It became wrong because of the epoch bump (for no obvious >>reason). For software we distribute ourselves, this change can be caught >>at some point before the release (or by automation, like you suggest), >>but for people packaging stuff outside Debian, this can be far more >>painful. > > It isn't clear how getting rid of epochs would prevent crazy > versioning. You'd have just as much trouble with > 1.8-really1.7-again1.8-fooledyou1.7 But they don't stay forever. They may never appear in a release. -- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- Wm. Shakespeare
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