Bug#363358: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#363358: apt thinks mailman package needs to be upgraded forever

Tyler MacDonald tyler at yi.org
Mon Apr 24 17:31:39 UTC 2006


Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> wrote:
> > This may actually be an apt bug,
> Yes, it is.
> 
> > but it only seems to be affecting mailman:
> Because only the mailman maintainer is so naive as to believe a zero
> epoch would function correctly as specified in the policy.
> 
> Because the incoming-handling scripts have a similar bug, I cannot
> cleanly fix this.

	Okay... so is the solution to release a new mailman with a non-zero
epoch?

		- Tyler




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