> Yes, that makes it nice for users, but creates confusion for packagers.
FWIW, I would expect packagers to know what epochs are and how to deal with them. > I agree the extra source packages are a bigger pain that will be > temporary, while the epoch solution is a mild pain that will last forever. Having been forced by unhappy external constraints to use epochs in some of my packages, I discovered that they bugged me for about a day and them I got used to them and they bothered me no more. As a developer, you put them in your changelog and forget about them. As a user, you barely even notice they're there. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
