On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Mark Baker wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:34:32PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > To prevent having to use epochs for every new upstream version, > > the version number should be changed to the following format in > > such cases: `96-05-01', `96-12-24', and starting with the year > > 2000 `2000-12-24'. > > That will mean we'll need to use epochs for all these starting in 2000. > Since we're going to need four digit years soon anyway, it would be better > to use them now.
Umm, last time I checked 2000 was far larger than 99. Doesn't look like epochs are needed for that reason.
