On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Justin Hallett wrote:
okay %e is great thanks...and I agree, but I think it will be used, I have
a number of rc pkgs.
It is almost good that it is not documented. It really should not be used except in grave circumstances. If you have to fudge version numbers to not use epoch, do that.
Particularly never add a "-RC1" or something similar just "because you can use epoch to correct it later". It is better to not package that version, or if you must, fudge the version so it works with dpkg's system. If you see a strange version with a new package update, make sure it will update cleanly later before adding it.
Epoch is only to correct errors, or if the upstreams change their entire versioning scheme.
-Ben
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