On Oct 30, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote: > To prevent having to use epochs for every new upstream version, the > version number should be changed to the following format in such > cases: `1996-05-01', `1996-12-24'. It is up to the maintainer whether What about 960501? It's shorter. (This format has NO Y2K problems.) -- ciao, Marco