Re: Zero epoch vs no epoch (patch)

Paul Nasrat <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.metadata
Organization Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 08:03 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> BTW, I just realized the patch is against repodata DTD as epoch is listed 
> as a required attribute of version. It doesn't matter for apt whether it's 
> epoch="" or no epoch attr at all but of course we want to follow the DTD. 
> Just wondering should the DTD be changed not to require it, because it's 
> obviously *not* required by rpm nor deb so it doesn't make much sense to 
> require it here either.

I think we need to replace the dtd with a schema, I don't think it's
currently complete anyway.

Paul
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