Le mercredi 08 mai 2013 à 08:23 +0000, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : 
> Now imagine the following:
> 
> • foo 1.0-1 uploaded
> • bar 1.0-1 uploaded, depends on foo-dev (>= 1.0)
> • foo 1.1-1 uploaded
> • bar 1.1-1 uploaded, depends on foo-dev (>= 1.1)
> • foo 1.1-1really1.0-1 uploaded
> 
> That’s a massive “oops” in both cases. 

Indeed, thanks for showing epochs don’t bring anything useful here.

> Funnily enough, using the
> epoch will, yes, force an update of all r-deps, BUT it’s the only
> sane way for the r-deps because otherwise the saga continues:
> 
> • bar 1.1-2 uploaded, depends on foo-dev (>= 1.1),
>    foo-dev (<< 1.1-1really1.0-1~) | foo-dev (>= 1.1-2~)

WTF? Just bar 1.1-2 depends foo-dev (>= 1.1-2~)

> • foo 1.1-2 uploaded
> • foo 1.1-2really1.1-1 uploaded………

Yeah sure, because in this case the foo maintainer is too stupid to
remember his lesson, and does the same mistake *again* 2 days later.

How about talking about real cases instead of completely made-up stuff
that doesn’t have any relevance?

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