Re: ✘EPOCH

[Achim Gratz]

> The standard recommends settng EPOCH by default to the date of the
> last source file modification.  I'm not sure if that is desirable,
> should be optional, or just ignored.

If you stick to that recommendation then someone has to go to great 
lengths to have the EPOCH going backwards and separate builds from the 
same source will have the same EPOCH.  The latter consideration becomes 
important if you use buildbots working away concurrently, which are 
nowadays what will provide the packages for almost any GNU/Linux 
distribution.  So I think it's a quite sensible recommendation that 
should be followed unless you have a spcific reason not to.


-- 
Achim.

(on the road :-)