Warren Togami wrote :
We've gone through this a million times, and some people just do not understand. I do not use FreshRPMS so I no longer care that all of those packages are potentially broken when it comes to epoch promotion.
fedora.us had this policy for the last 9 months for a good reason. Just do it, or your package will not be accepted into Fedora Extras.
Why is that!? No official Red Hat packages have epoch set to 0 (see "rpm -qa --qf '%{epoch}\t%{name}\n'" output), and AFAIK, rpm >= 4.2 treats no epoch as 0. So, as Fedora Extras will probably only start with FC2, and should include guidelines and policies applicable to Fedora Core too, I really don't see the reason to systematically introduce a zero epoch into each and every possible package now. For rpm < 4.2, maybe, but again, it's a little far away now to be an important matter.
Why would I say "Epochs are evil" but go and set them to zero everywhere when it can be sanely avoided now?
I guess we're up to one million and one now.
Matthias