Undefined %epoch problem (Re: rawhide report: 20150730 changes)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/28/2015 05:32 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:36:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>>> See:
>>>
>>>     https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-August/213209.html
>>>     https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-August/213208.html
>>
>> Bugs ... an undefined epoch is supposed to be treated as 0.
>
> No, that's the old case. No Epoch = Epoch 0.
>
Both cases are equal on the rpm level.

All tools which use rpm need to set their internal representation of an 
epoch to 0 if rpm returns an undefined epoch.

Ralf