[repo-coord] Re: mozilla epoch madness

[Christopher Blizzard]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>This should probably be filed as a bug at bugzilla.atrpms.net against
>galeon (do so if you like), but I am forwarding this to the repo-coord
>list, as this is the most prominent example of epoch inflation.
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I've played the epoch game forever with the various other addons to Red 
Hat's offerings (Ximian, dag, whatever.)  They always change the epoch 
to trump whatever Red Hat includes.  I can't do much about that, and I 
only change the epoch whenever required.

--Chris

>Could we skip the epoch increments and nail the epoch right into
>infinity? ;)
>
>It looks like rawhide's mozilla-1.6-2 is at epoch 37, just like FC1's
>1.4.1-17, so it seems like it has converged (and I thought the
>question to 42 would be "what's the highest epoch mozilla will get?" ;)
>
>Is there any reason to keep epochs in third party repos higher than
>37? If yes, could you coordinate this with Christopher Blizzard
><blizzard at redhat.com> (cced)? At the very least upgrade paths to the
>next Red Hat/Fedora Core release are broken.
>
>BTW, why does galeon have to depend on the epoched version? Wouldn't
>an epoch-less directory dependecy a la
>
>Requires: /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6
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>be far better (epoch-less)? It only breaks with inequality
>constraints.
>
>Thanks!
>
>On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:38:30AM -0400, BTC wrote:
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>> apt-get install galeon
>>Reading Package Lists... Done
>>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>>or been moved out of Incoming.
>> 
>>Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
>>the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>>that package should be filed.
>>The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>> 
>>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>  galeon: Depends: mozilla (= 38:1.6) but 37:1.6-0.fdr.7.1 is to be
>>installed
>>E: Broken packages
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