[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#366438: epoch of 0 causes apt to want to install mailman over and over

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 05:46:30PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

>> I agree; however katie uses (via python-apt) libapt-pkg to compare
>> versions of uploads and version already in sid, and thus suffers
>> from the same problem and rejects my uploads without an explicit
>> epoch. I thus have to wait until a fixed version of apt is fixed
>> _and_ ftp-master has the fixed libapt-pkg installed.

> Have you talked with them about this?

Not really; I've replied to the rejection, but they didn't react.

> They usually only run stable versions of apt on ftp-master, afaik.

That's what I would expect them to do, and what I probably would do in
their shoes. (Being conservative about central critical infrastructure
and all that.)

-- 
Lionel