On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 20:28:02 +0100 Bartłomiej Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 2016-11-28 08:26, Antonio Rojas wrote:
El Mon, 28 Nov 2016 01:34:38 +0100, Bartłomiej Piotrowski escribió:
There is no way to remove epoch, ever. I know it looks ugly for some packagers, but there is nothing to be ashamed for. We have it for a reason, and if it's been added, it stays.
I thought AUR packages were unsupported. Sure, it is nice to give them a higher version number when they are moved to the official repos to allow for a smooth upgrade, but that shouldn't be an enforced rule IMO. And removing epoch is a reasonable enough reason not to do it.
They are, but have we ever told users to uninstall a package that's been in AUR before upgrading to the repository version? I don't recall something like that. This is just two characters more in resulting package version.
Bartłomiej
Yes, I believe that was the upgrade path for gitlab.