[repo-coord] Re: mozilla epoch madness

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:44:54AM -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

Since most mozilla rebuilders are here on this list, would it be
possible to coordinate this (this list carries the name repo-coord,
after all ;)? I understand that some would wish you to bump the epoch
to an all superseeding value (probably "666" is the best value ...)
and would swear an oath to never touch mozilla's epoch again.

Also I think, that if a repo wants to offer newer mozillas than the
base distribution (a good thing), it should be a rebuild off rawhide's
version preserving dependency structure to allow for upgrading to the
next distribution release.

I am not sure what additions Dag, Matt and the others have placed into
the mozilla rpms, perhaps you can discuss with blizzard, whether they
should be added to rawhide? If not, perhaps they can be offered as
external rpms?

Thanks to all!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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