On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:39 PM, David C. Rankin <drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > All, > > Updating different minimum dependency package version info for tde > PKGBUILDs, > I note there have been a number of 'version number format' changes for various > packages. E.g.: > > filesystem 0.x.y-z ==> 2013.05-2 > usbutils 0.x.y-z ==> 006-1 > > There is a big difference going from filesystem>=0.7.3 to filesystem>=2013. > When I run across packages like this where the version has changed format -- > Are > they likely going to stay with the new format? Or will they likely revert back > to major.minor-rel numbers at some time? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
This is handled with the `epoch` part of the version now, so it's a non-issue. Arch generally doesn't make use of minimum version requirements at all because partial upgrades are not supported.
