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Re: Negative version components



Giuliano P Procida writes:
 > There is the question as to whether epochs should be extended to all
 > version components but there has not been much comment on that yet.

Yes, I noticed that too ...

 > With luck, ~ will ensure epochs are never needed again (famous last
 > words).

At least, not for dealing with prerelease issues.  They will still be
needed when upstream change their numbering scheme in an incompatible
way, which is anyway the reason they exist for ...
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