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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 1, 2013, at 12:14, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 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.

The PortSystem and name and version and homepage and master_sites and description and long_description and license lines never go away either and it's not a problem! ;)