On 2021-11-28 at 00:03, David Wright wrote: > Epochs are unaffected by any such considerations: they override the > whole versioning system. BTW I can't recall seeing an official Debian > epoch as high as 2: though someone will probably correct me. Oh, it certainly happens. Even just on my own system, I see 184 epochs of 2 or higher: $ dpkg -l "*" | grep "\b[2-9]:[0-9]" | wc -l 184 and even one set of packages with an epoch as high as 9: ~$ dpkg -l "*" | grep "\b9:[0-9]" ii cdrkit-doc 9:1.1.11-3.2 all Documentation for the cdrkit package suite ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3.2 amd64 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images ii wodim 9:1.1.11-3.2 amd64 command line CD/DVD writing tool though I don't see any of 10 or above. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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