Question about epochs

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:46 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> I think I remember something like this coming up here a while ago. I 
> recently imported octave from core to extras, and it has had an epoch 
> defined for years. I'm not sure why this was done, as octave has always 
> had very consistent version names. Since the use of the epoch tag now 
> seems to be frowned upon, would it cause problems if I removed the epoch 
> from the new Extras octave package?

Yes, since the Epoch is non-zero and you're still expected to be able to
handle updates/upgrades from FC3.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
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