Question about epochs

[Quentin Spencer <qspencer ieee org>]

I think I remember something like this coming up here a while ago. I 
recently imported octave from core to extras, and it has had an epoch 
defined for years. I'm not sure why this was done, as octave has always 
had very consistent version names. Since the use of the epoch tag now 
seems to be frowned upon, would it cause problems if I removed the epoch 
from the new Extras octave package?

-Quentin