On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 23:22:19 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > There already is an epoch, you can't remove it. On the other hand, with the > damage already done, there's little reason not to bump it.
I think this is a misconception. It is true that any possibly ugliness will not go away, and increasing it does not make it substantially uglier. But epochs have the same functional bad effects regardless of a pre-existing epoch, so the fact that there is one already is no good excuse to just bump it. <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q:_What_are_version_epochs_and_why_and_when_are_they_needed.3F> In this case though, I think it was certainly appropriate. Thanks, Guillem
