[Alberto Garcia]
> I was unaware of this thing and I'm sure I'm overlooking something,
> so can someone give a simple example of actual problems introduced by
> using epochs?
One real problem is that epochs make it easier to introduce human
error in specifying reverse runtime and build deps. E.g.:
# in stable
Package: libfoo-dev
Version: 1:1.4.1-1
# in unstable
Package: libfoo-dev
Version: 1:1.5.5-2
# in unstable
Package: bar
Build-Depends: libfoo-dev (>= 1.5)
The 'bar' maintainer intended to require the unstable version of
libfoo-dev, but in fact the dependency is satisfied from stable as
well.
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