[Fedora-packaging] Retrograde package version

[W. Michael Petullo]

>> I recently followed another distribution's lead and made some assumptions
>> about the version numbering of a package I maintain, mt-daapd.
>>
>> I released a bugfix in the form of:
>>
>> mt-daapd-0.9-0.4.1696.fc8
>> mt-daapd-0.9-0.2.1696.fc9
>> mt-daapd-0.9-0.2.1696.el5
>>
>> I had thought that the next release would be in the 0.9 series.
>>
>> Now, the bugfix is upstream and the author has released the next version
>> of mt-daapd. Unfortunately, this version is 0.2.4.2, which is lower that
>> the versions above. I'd like to supercede the packages above with this
>> "lower" version number.
>>
>> What is the best way to handle this? I'd like to avoid using the 0.9
>> version, as the developer has not moved to this yet upstream.
 
> Epoch bump?

As far as I know, the epoch does not override the version for the
update path.

Mike