On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:49:39PM +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
However, I have recently bumped into a package naming problem which
doesn't
seem to be covered here. It's a program called K3B, a CD/DVD burning
frontend for KDE.
Here is their release numbers : 0.8 -> 0.9 -> 0.10
That's no problem, RPM compares those correctly. That's normal version
numbering out there, and RPM has handled it since the beginning of (its)
recorded history.
How should we set the RPM fields without using epochs in this type
of
versionning ? Is is a case where epoch is necessary ?
Definitely do NOT use epoch here. I have heard that somewhere there is
a theory circulating that these cases require epoch, and they are like
practical examples of the apocryphal stories of philosophers debating
the number of teeth in a horse's mouth without once walking into the
barn to check!
michaelkjohnson
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