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Re: Bad version number based on date advice in policy?



Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:49:38PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> [policy 3.1.2]
> > I would suggest using 0.YYYYMMDD to avoid using epoch when upstream
> > finally decides to use version 1.0 instead.
> 
> What's wrong with using an epoch?

Most people would prefer not use them if they can avoid it.
I suppose they are rather ugly and they need to be explained to people
outside of Debian.



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