On 10/20/18 7:27 AM, Filipe Laíns via aur-general wrote: >> epoch - Special version control number. > > This is only used if you need to do rollbacks.
Rollbacks are but one of many reasons to use an epoch, take a look at blender which has 17 of them and I don't think it's ever been rolled back once. Among other things, not much you can do when upstream releases version "1a" as an *update* to version "1", when pacman considers "1a" to be a beta/prerelease of "1". -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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