Should there be BuildRequires for perl/libtool/auto*?

[Matthias Saou]

Warren Togami wrote :

> If you require a specific version of any package, then you MUST include 
> an Epoch in that dependency.  If the Epoch is blank, then make it "0".

Why? Can you give a good reason to introduce "0" in every versionned
dependency? I can only think of reasons _not_ to :
- Keep things shorter, clearer thus easier to understand
- Not confuse the user with the arbitrary number that the epoch is when he
  gets a message like "Failed dependencies, requires foo >= 1.20"

Epochs are only used in corner-cases, why make them appear in the general
case at all?

I still don't think introducing a zero epoch everywhere is sensible nor
useful.

Matthias

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