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

[Limao Luo]

On 04/05/2013 10:05 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
> 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.
I think you mean it just needs to be bumped this once, since the tag 
versions are going to be increasing from here onward... (unless, of 
course, the pkgver() function is changed in a way that this is not true).