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

[Jeff Johnson]

It is possible to construct failing counter examples for either obvious choice of missing epoch.

Your "strong recollection" cannot be analyzed further.

Truly I made the change at the time to simplify what I had to type multiple times a day doing support:
    Missing epoch is identical to 0
Other answers required multiple interactions to identify exactly what was failing to meet expectations and deal with endless opinions of what SHOULD be done.

I believed then (and believe now) that ignoring comparisons with missing values is the superior implementation for missing epoch.

I also believe that exposing epoch values everywhere was a poor design choice in yum that has led to brain overload from too much information in the fog of "dependency hell".

But what's done is done, discussions be damned.

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