Superseded: strip epoch when converting debian repo doc files to puppy format.
Closed: since this is included in Merge Request#14 -- " Add Option to Keep Epoch, in repo doc db"
For reasons of back-compatibility with the puppy package manager, we are stripping the epoch info when creating the repo files using ppa2pup_gawk.
In the future, we may add an environmental variable that one can set so that they can keep epoch info in the generated repo files since:
- Epoch information provides more info for version comparison
- There is a remote chance that repo entries could have the same name field (field #1 (closed)) except for the epoch number.
For previous discussion See: Merge Request #8, Note 254135703
Note, I don't believe that ppa2pup, strips the epoch information. We should verify and also patch ppa2pup in a separate merge request.
Edited by s243a