Bug#336342: marked as done (Clarify permitted epoch values)
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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Clarify permitted epoch values and numeric versions
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:27:25 +0200
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In section 5.6.12, the permitted epoch values are not specified
precisely. Large epochs tend to cause problems for some tools, for
example dpkg, whose behavior is even architecture-specific. There
might be other problems throughout the toolchain.
Maybe Policy should be changed to reflect this, from
"This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer."
to:
"This is a single unsigned integer, consisting of at most 8 digits,
but it is generally much smaller."
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From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
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Subject: Umm, anything larger than 8 digits is not a small integer
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Hi,
If someone is using a integer larger than 8 digits, it is not
small in the conventional meaning of the term. I would also not like
to base policy entirely on current implementation, since
implementations can change.
This is a case of "Don't do that, then". If you use an epoch >
8 digits long, and things break, either get the things that break
fixed, or don't do it. Use, as policy suggests, a *small* integer.
manoj
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