it would conflict with epochs set for other purposesIt would be nice if packages would include an implicit epoch tag, so a package build on 9.2 will always be newer than one for 9.1 with the same version and release tags.
Not if all our packages were rebuilt with epoch: <release>.<epoch> tags. This may be a bit extreme though.
when i backport i usually change the release to 0.release we could have all packages have a release of <distver>.<release>mdk ?
Yeah, actually this is a fix for Buchan's idea...
Austin
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Austin Acton
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
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