Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

[Blake Barnett <shadoi@nanovoid.com>]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Michael Jennings wrote:

> On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 12:09:11 (-0700),
> Blake Barnett wrote:
>
> > We did it because it was a support nightmare to explain why the main
> > repository packages always took precedence, even though their
> > version was lower.  It "works as expected" for users this way.
>
> No, using an epoch version identical to that of "main" would've made
> it "work as expected."  Now, you have the exact same problem, only in
> reverse.  If anyone ever wants to return to main, they have to
> manually intervene just like they would've before.

You're right.  But they have to anyway because the packaging will  
almost certainly be different, and it's not the job of the official  
maintainer to conflict with packages outside the main repository.

-Blake