[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Christopher Stone]

On 7/5/06, Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> With current rpm you can express package (but not version) dependencies
> only. Therefore, the Requires: above would be fulfilled in FE3 because it
> has bind-20:9.2.4 which is newer than bind-9.3 (which will be interpreted
> as bind-0:9.3 nowadays).

This must be a special case because packages are not meant to go from
a higher epoch to a lower one.  We should not change every single spec
file just because one package does things incorrectly so we can
support a deprecated distro.