[aur-general] VCS PKGBUILD and Pacman 4.1: increase epoch?

[Jan Alexander Steffens]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering, as I am updating my PKGBUILDs to use the new VCS
> features of pacman, if this specific case need an epoch increase for
> those packages.
>
> Packages version were generated from the date (eg 20130401) and thus
> will probably be bigger than new versions from the tags (eg
> 0.3.1.32.gfb4117d). Thus an epoch increase should be needed to have a
> correct behavior.
>
> But it seems most packagers are not increasing the epoch as they are
> switching to this new versionning scheme.
>
> Is there a recommendation on this?
>
> --
> Cédric Girard
>

Yes, the correct thing to do would be bumping epoch for every new release
of the PKGBUILD.