SPECS: beryl-core.spec, beryl-plugins.spec, beryl-settings.spec, e...

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 19:20, Bartosz Taudul wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:40:32PM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > why snapshot in Version field? should use snapshot date in Release to
> > avoid epoch bumps.
>
> It was late and I was too lazy to do that, but eager to see the new
> eyecandy. BTW, everybody fears bumping epoch, but I don't recall anyone
> saying why it is bad.
because you have to remember them, and have to always check what is the damn 
epoch. and if they change very rapidly you go nuts how to specify specific 
package version requirement. and later backtracing which epoch is needed to 
require version x.y.z goes difficult too.

> wolf

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glen