Warren Togami (warren@xxxxxxxxxx) said:
The new (4.2.1) behavior is more predictable, but it breaks backward compatibility with old packages that have broken requirements specifications (i.e., missing specific epochs when they're needed). If we want to move Red Hat 8.0 and 9 over to the new behavior, we could make new mozilla, etc. packages that work properly with RPM 4.2.1, however.
Updates for Mozilla will most likely be needed one day, because of the very large complexity of a behemoth like Mozilla we will surely have a security update in the future. I think.
Yes, but pushing a new RPM with this will cause problems for people installing original packages in the meantime.
Bill
Only if we enable the rpm-4.2.1 epoch behavior. The other fixes don't cause this regression in behavior.
Warren
