On Mar 3, 2014 9:39 PM, "Adam Williamson" <awill...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 11:05 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Reindl Harald wrote: > > > yes it is a hack but better than fake version numbers to > > > satisfy RPM and that is *the* reason epoch exists at all > > > > +1 > > > > That Ubuntu-style apples-101.reallyoranges versioning is misleading and > > against Fedora packaging guidelines. > > Yeah, I'd agree with Harald and Kevin in this case: 1.0-0.2.999 is a > horrible version string, I wouldn't have recommended it even if it had > been possible. This kind of situation really is the one in which it *is* > correct to use Epoch - when upstream versioning goes backwards, and > upstream cannot change it.
Thanks all! Another piece of wisdom about RPM packaging best practices has now been stowed away in my rapidly decaying neurons :)
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