[Fedora-packaging] Epoch policy

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:19:15 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 11:24 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >1. Look on the fedora-packaging list for the discussion
> >2. my guess is: 
> >   a. if the fedora.us package had a non-zero epoch it needs to be
> >maintained - just so users have an upgrade path
> >   b. if the fedora.us package had an Epoch: 0 drop it and remove
> >%{epoch} from anyplace you have it in ver strings.
> 
> I agree with this. Anyone else have thoughts?

Dropping "Epoch: 0" breaks rpm -F updates. This is in bugzilla
somewhere.