Re: Versioning unversioned packages

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Subject: Re: Versioning unversioned packages
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:05:49 +0200

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 03:12:17PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> It will probably suffer from NIH syndrom, as usual, but we have a full
> nice set of version suffixes/prefixes in the OpenBSD package system that
> hasn't failed us so far.

It is not a case of NIH. pkgsrc Dewey has been supporting it for
decades. I don't even get the point of Epoch, since it can be trivially
emulated as initial version marker.

Joerg

References:
- Versioning unversioned packages
  - From: Gavan Fantom
- Re: Versioning unversioned packages
  - From: Ryo ONODERA
- Re: Versioning unversioned packages
  - From: Roland Illig
- Re: Versioning unversioned packages
  - From: Jonathan Perkin
- Re: Versioning unversioned packages
  - From: Greg Troxel
- Re: Versioning unversioned packages
  - From: Edgar Fuß
- Re: Versioning unversioned packages
  - From: Marc Espie

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