It is possible to construct failing counter examples for either obvious choice
of missing epoch.
Your "strong recollection" cannot be analyzed further.
Truly I made the change at the time to simplify what I had to type multiple
times a day doing support:
Missing epoch is identical to 0
Other answers required multiple interactions to identify exactly what was
failing to meet expectations and deal with endless opinions of what SHOULD be
done.
I believed then (and believe now) that ignoring comparisons with missing values
is the superior implementation for missing epoch.
I also believe that exposing epoch values everywhere was a poor design choice
in yum that has led to brain overload from too much information in the fog of
"dependency hell".
But what's done is done, discussions be damned.
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