On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:23:48PM -0500, 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. But of course that sorts after "1.0", meaning that an epoch is required for the final release. > 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. But epochs make it even more confusing for "the users", since they're a) arbitrary and b) mostly invisible. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
