Re: Let Jikes (finally) go into testing on its own...
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:42:53PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote:
> Epochs are a pain, if only because the look ugly and because they can
> never be gotten rid of. Is this the only solution?
>
> Would it work if, say, classpath built a new package
> 'jikes-with-classpath' (whatever the name, but a new one), which
> 'Replaces: jikes-classpath' and 'Conflicts: jikes-classpath' ? Classpath
> could then keep its version number, and upgrades should still happen
> automatically.
I second the renaming strategy to avoid epoch problems. We could call the renamed
packages: jikes-for-xyz .
Etienne
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