"version_rc1" preceding "version" without increasing the epoch?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2013, at 08:11, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if there is some painless & acceptable way to upgrade
>> the port to rc1 (or beta or whatever else) when knowing in advance
>> that the next release will only drop the "rc1" part? Without
>> increasing the epoch?
>
> This kind of problem is the reason why the epoch variable exists. Why don't you want to use it?

For purely esthetic reasons ;)

When the version is upgraded, revision gets deleted. Once epoch is
there, it may never go away.

Mojca