On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 18:39 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 11:05 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
> > yes it is a hack but better than fake version numbers to
> > satisfy RPM and that is *the* reason epoch exists at all
>
> +1
>
> That Ubuntu-style apples-101.reallyoranges versioning is misleading and
> against Fedora packaging guidelines.
Yeah, I'd agree with Harald and Kevin in this case: 1.0-0.2.999 is a
horrible version string, I wouldn't have recommended it even if it had
been possible. This kind of situation really is the one in which it *is*
correct to use Epoch - when upstream versioning goes backwards, and
upstream cannot change it.
I'd see it as a temporary thing until 1.0 does come out (whereas Epoch
changes are forever), but I can totally see your point, and, upon
further reflection, I think you (and Kevin and Reindl) are probably
right.
Jonathan