On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Axel Thimm wrote:
It would neither hurt marketing goals, nor any technical issues, but
it helps a lot with 3rd party repos supporting more than just the
latest release. Embedding (rpm-)increasing tags into the package
release ensures sane upgrade paths (similar to some Red Hat errata
releases like the kernel rpms).
With the Epoch: (which went from 0 to 1 on the redhat-release package),
everything works out fine and is rpm-increasing.
-- Elliot
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