[arch-general] Question on version numbers

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On 15 June 2014 14:30, Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp at sevenbyte.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> just because I'm inquisitive. What's the purpose of version numbers with
> a colon? I've seen this in several packages, e.g. this one [1]. Upstream
> version number is 5.0.2 and arch version number is 1:5.0.2.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-setuptools/
>

This is the `epoch` as explained here
https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html