Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (129 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:46:48PM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mardi 20 janvier 2009, à 15:37 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger a écrit :
> > > > > On 1/16/2009 at  2:01 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > > So, any idea what are the usual problems where epoch is solved, and what
> > > are the recommended solutions?
> >
> > I think a typical problem might be that you created / published a
> > version with a completely broken version tag (typo in the spec file).
> >
> > so instead of having
> > VersionL 1.0.1 
> > you wrote 
> > Version: 10.1
> >
> > In this case of course, the user will never ever get an update anymore
> > until the package really reaches this version. 
>
> Yep, that's the only use case I'm aware of.
>
> > This is a use-case where Epoch can help you out... (as it's just an
> > added version information in front of the real version).
>
> But... what about the policy to not use Epoch? :-) Is it okay in this
> case? (if yes, we should specify this)

No, never use Epoch.

You can never get rid of it again for this package.

Ciao, Marcus
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