[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#363385: mailman: Explicit zero epoch causes apt-get to endlessly treat as needing upgrade

[Laurent Fousse]

Hello,

* Max Bowsher [2006-04-18]:
> The current package should be repackaged without an explicit zero epoch
> in its version number, as soon as possible.

The problem is that apparently the archive management tools have the
same bug. Possible solutions would be :

    a) convince an ftp-master/someone familiar with the tools to fix
       the bug in the archive tools,
    b) convince an ftp-master to manually work around the bug once,
    c) accept we now have a useless epoch and be done with it.

For the moment, Lionel has tried a/b :

    http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mailman-hackers/2006-April/000708.html