Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (129 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:01:43PM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Indeed. But to add this there, we should probably explain how to handle
> some cases where epoch is used in other distros so people don't feel
> lost.

We have a policy that the version scheme must not change in a
released product (i.e. with the maintenance updates), so we don't
need epochs in that case.

For release updates (11.0 -> 11.1 and the like), the distupgrade
algorithm has no problems with downgrading, so we also need to
worry about epochs here.

Are there any other uses?

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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