Comment 32 for bug 311291

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In , Peter (peter-redhat-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #2)
>
> > You should beware that livna already has a package named "unrar", and I would
> > urge you to at least let them know that you plan to add a package with the same
> > name. It has a much higher version number so I expect there to be some level of
> > user confusion.
>
> For this issue, how do you think about making this (Fedora's) new
> unrar have "Epoch 1"?

Using an Epoch seems like a big kludge. :|

If we can get the Livna and Fedora maintainers cooperating about
naming/versioning, we can skip the Epoch necessity altogether. Not sure how
feasible such cooperation would be though, from a technical standpoint...