removing epoch slot

2014-06-17 Thread Nico Schlömer
Hi all, the old netCDF package [1] has an epoch slot, 1, which seems entirely unnecessary. For the rewrite, it'd be nice if we could get rid of it. Is that common practice? Is there an upgrade path for it? Cheers, Nico [1] https://packages.debian.org/km/source/sid/mipsel/netcdf -- To

Re: removing epoch slot

2014-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Nico Schlömer wrote: the old netCDF package [1] has an epoch slot, 1, which seems entirely unnecessary. For the rewrite, it'd be nice if we could get rid of it. Is that common practice? Is there an upgrade path for it? From the changelog: * added 1: epoch

Re: removing epoch slot

2014-06-17 Thread Nico Schlömer
From the changelog: * added 1: epoch due to old netcdf-doc package having epoch 1: -- Warren Turkal w...@penguintechs.org Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:42:18 -0600 Aha! Well, that is indeed historical. Not sure what you are referring to by rewrite, but if the all the source/binary package names