Elliot Lee wrote : > You're definitely right that there will always be some special cases, and > we'll have to deal them on a one-by-one basis. In that particular special > case, I'd prefer to use "1.0beta1" as the version. > > However, the existence of this special case above doesn't prove that epoch > is bad or the wrong way to handle things. It's important to keep the users > in mind - their package searching and updating lives would be made a lot > easier if the Version: is as close to upstream whenever possible. Sure, but you've got to make the balance with what Ville just posted... ok, I'm probably a bit biased, but just like him, I think that the current "workaround", which is properly documented and easy to follow is definitely worth it. Oh, that and "epochs are a nightmare"... just ask jbj, he's probably seen some of the wildest bug reports ;-) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3 Load : 0.27 0.12 0.15
