On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 08:15, Ben Burton wrote: > > > Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and put a 4: epoch on all of the > > > packages that are going into sid. Though in general there have been so > > > > Yes, that is the best thing to do. > > Yep, I'm going to do that. After all, our users are our priority, etc > etc etc, and this will at least help reduce upgrade problems from the > 3.0.x packages on ftp.kde.org. > > Though in general I am *not* going to try to keep track of the mistakes > made by everyone who puts up their own unofficial package repositories and > then try to compensate for these mistakes in the official debs; this is > just insanity. > > i.e., I am switching to epoch 4:, but I am *not* setting a precedent for > everyone to do what they want in their own repositories and assume that > the official maintainers will just deal with it. :)
Fair call. The epoch 4: mistake was started long before KDE got into Debian so it's fair to deal with that. Other mistakes can just be left for the users to deal with. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
