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Re: Bug#429577: #429577: ITP: emacs-snapshot -- The GNU Emacs editor (development snapshot)



Hello,

On Sun, May 27 2018, Rob Browning wrote:

> Looks good -- though we'll have to ponder how we want to handle epochs
> (now that the unversioned package needs to add one).  Sean said that
> there was a DEP suggesting they be included in versions via "%",
> e.g. 1%20180414-1+git836dce6.
>
> I'm not sure what I think about that yet -- locally I've just created
> two tags VERSION and 1%VERSION.  If there's no harm in that, then
> maybe it'd be the most flexible...

http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep14/

Various tools already respect this convention so it's not really just a
suggestion anymore, and I can't see a good reason for breaking it.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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