terminology and the hierarchy of releases

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 07:54:21AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Danger Will Robinson!!  Epoch seepage is a BAD BAD thing.  If the package 
> already has epoch in it, that is one thing, but for a package like 
> Evolution, where there is no epoch already, it's a horrible idea to 
> introduce epoch at this point.

How else are you supposed to forcibly downgrade a package using an 
automatic system?