On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 14 février 2018 12:53 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> : > >> > Would it hurt to take those epoch bumps into Debian? > >> > >> Depends on what you mean by hurt. I see epochs being used w/o much > >> tought or care, on many situations where they are not supposed to be > >> used, and they are permanent stigmas. > > > > I wonder where this representation of "epoch" as a "stigma" comes from. > > They're a part of a version number. They're as much a stigma as the "57" > > in "libavcodec57". What's the big deal? Just use it if you need to, and > > be done with it. > > > > There's really really really nothing wrong with using an epoch. If some > > of our (or someone else's) infrastructure has issues dealing with them, > > then that's a bug in the infrastructure and we should fix it. But nobody > > should be afraid of using an epoch when the upstream version number > > changes incompatibly, because *that's what they're for*. > > It's not only an infrastructure problem. If you Depends on X (>= 1.8), > this will be true with X 1:1.6 as well.
Only if your program is severely buggy. Hint: either it matches dpkg --compare-versions exactly, or it is a severe bug. -- Henrique Holschuh
