Understanding the numbers in package names (?OT)

[Martijn van de Streek]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Constantine Evans wrote:

> If I recall correctly, it should also be added that epochs have been
> considered harmful in many cases for quite a while, but I can't quite
> remember where I read that. I do know that they were misused by third
> parties in the past.

Harmful is a relative term. You should of course try to minimise its
use, but sometimes things happen (upstream developers can do weird things, or someone might figure out a 'better way' to package it) that require their use.

So you can consider epochs as a 'last-measure' tool to fix version
errors.

Martijn
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