[Fedora-packaging] Epoch:0

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Tue Aug 6 08:53:14 UTC 2013


On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:15:26 +0800
Christopher Meng <cickumqt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> wrote:
> > please do not remove it, there still can be tools that don't treat
> > Epoch:0 and empty Epoch as equal. In the past they were different.
> 
> Oh?
> 
> So are they treated same now? Yes? No?
> 
> In fact if a package has Epoch 1 I would like to keep, but I can't
> understand why they started epoch from 0.

the rule for Epoch is - once it is there, it is there forever


		Dan


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