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Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped



Am 14.02.2018 um 16:08 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 01:57:16PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
>> It's not only an infrastructure problem. If you Depends on X (>= 1.8),
>> this will be true with X 1:1.6 as well.
> Or with 1.8+really1.6.

But this problem will fix itself (after a release cycle at most). An
epoch stays around forever.

From personal experience I've seen enough packages which declared a
dependency on libfoo-dev (x.y) and forgot the epoch.
epochs in library packages are extremely bad and should be avoided at
all costs.


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