Re: Version numbers with dates

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com> wrote:
>I want to package something based on date (development snapshot) but
>w/o epochs (as I'm not sure where to start the epoch and how to drop it
>later).

You can never drop an epoch. Once you've introduced one, you have to
keep it or a higher epoch for the lifetime of that package name.

>If that works, why are the KDE packages using an epoch (4) instead of
>just 2.0-DATE-DEBIANRELEASE?

I guess there was some numbering problem at some point in the past.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]