On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > =E2=9D=A6 14 f=C3=A9vrier 2018 12:53 +0100, Wouter Verhelst : > >>> > Would it hurt to take those epoch bumps into Debian? >>> >>> Depends on what you mean by hurt. I see epochs being used w/o much >>> tought or care, on many situations where they are not supposed to be >>> used, and they are permanent stigmas. >> >> I wonder where this representation of "epoch" as a "stigma" comes from. >> They're a part of a version number. They're as much a stigma as the "57" >> in "libavcodec57". What's the big deal? Just use it if you need to, and >> be done with it. >> >> There's really really really nothing wrong with using an epoch. If some >> of our (or someone else's) infrastructure has issues dealing with them, >> then that's a bug in the infrastructure and we should fix it. But nobody >> should be afraid of using an epoch when the upstream version number >> changes incompatibly, because *that's what they're for*. > > It's not only an infrastructure problem. If you Depends on X (>=3D 1.8), > this will be true with X 1:1.6 as well. In the particular case of gnome-calculator, virtually nothing depends on a particular version of gnome-calculator. And in this case, it's probably better for me to just go ahead and upload the epoch bump, upsetting a few people, but it's not really a big deal at all and saves a bunch of needless work in the long run. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha