[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] version comparison with epoch does not work as expected (#450)

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Thu Jun 21 07:40:54 UTC 2018


It used to be different in the early days of rpm. That behavior, known as epoch promotion, does not work and it was changed for very good reasons in the early 2000-something. So no ta bug, and not going to change either, no epoch == zero epoch is the only workable interpretation. Been there...

Note that your worry about tar dropping the epoch is a needless one: epochs can never be dropped. Doing so would be a severe packaging bug in tar.

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