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Re: 2008Q1 -> current: downgrade



On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:56:17PM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
>   So, Joerg and Al: what are your proposed ways of dealing with the
> problem at hand?  Ignore it, and let users sort out the mess on their
> own and by hand?  Rename PKGBASE with all the mess and complexity
> (strange name of installed packages, CONFLICTS, handling renames,
> mismatch between PKGPATH and PKGBASE) that means?  Any other ideas?

Keep the version numbers in the existing scale? E.g.
foo-20070809.4.5 This is not really more ugly than PKG_EPOCH.

Joerg


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