On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Maxime Gauduin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 22:20 +0100, WorMzy Tykashi wrote: >> On 5 April 2013 22:19, WorMzy Tykashi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Oops. Forgot my reference. >> >> [0] >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_CVS_%26_SVN_PKGBUILD_guidelines > > The versioning scheme is up to the maintainer, you're free to choose the > one which makes more sense, and using the date is perfectly fine. The > guidelines only provide examples. > About epoch, I chose not to add one in my AUR packages. I believe it is > an unnecessary complication, only makepkg is officially supported for > AUR, epoch is irrelevant for such installs. > > Cheers. > -- > Maxime >
I agree that epoch should not be included in AUR packages just to work around limitations in unsupported AUR helpers. If the AUR helpers cannot properly handle these, then the AUR helpers should be fixed rather than polluting the PKGBUILDs with workarounds. PKGBUILDs in the AUR are frequently sloppy enough as it is. Let's not make the problem any worse. Jason
