On 2023/04/26 12:11, bent...@openbsd.org wrote:
> Nam Nguyen writes:
> > Sorry about that. I imported it as is, so I will change to 0pl with
> > EPOCH.
> 
> No need for that. The 0pl suggestion (only a suggestion) was to avoid
> hypothetical EPOCH in the future if upstream picks a version number less
> than 1.0; but rolling back from 1.0 now that it's been committed would
> mean a guaranteed EPOCH now. Stick with 1.0pl20230220 and no EPOCH.

Agreed (though 0plXX looks a bit odd to me and I'd probably go for
0.0.2023xxxx in that case)

EPOCH isn't really a problem, the main thing (apart from ugly version
numbers in PKGNAME) is that it can give some surprises with version
specs in dependencies/@conflict lines/etc.

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