[Fedora-packaging] Re: Epoch policy

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, 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?

Fully agree, kill the stupid zero epochs. I think that's been happening 
already in extras to some extent but lots of them still exist.

 	- Panu -