[arch-general] perl-authen-sasl: local (2.1401-1) is newer than community (2.15-1)

[Allan McRae]

On 21/07/10 15:32, Nathan Wayde wrote:
> This is prolly a stupid idea but I'll suggest it anyway. Have anyone
> thought of simply adding another field in the pkginfo, say altver which
> if present would override pkgver. I'm pretty sure it would walk right
> around all this nonsense until(if ever) upstream starts using better
> version schemes. It would also fix? the issue with version dependencies
> of -svn(et al.) packages where the actual version is e.g 2.1 but the
> version in the pkginfo is 2432.
>

There has been talk about adding an epoch variable similar to what rpm 
does.   But this has not progressed beyond talk...

Allan