Worse than Debian policy and worse than vogon poetry: A vogon translation of (a part of) the debian policy, read out at minidebconf brussels lightning talks for a far too small audience :) 5.6.12.1 First Act. Oh horrible kremping mistake thou did, thine bruzzled stomach eat will thee brain. Thine version numbers mongle around craining into blurg. Thine wrastled epochs wonstingly reached have number 100. Erasing this will all crittled sanity and all will brustle out. Thou only shall use wrotched epochs to get out of carepalty horrors. If thou dare to ever rise thine migled epoch again, Thou shalt hickimbly consult the wombed wisdom of debian-devel. Thou really should. Really Really Really. ---- translated from: 5.6.12.1. Epochs should be used sparingly Note that the purpose of epochs is to cope with situations where the upstream version numbering scheme changes and to allow us to leave behind serious mistakes. If you think that increasing the epoch is the right solution, you should consult debian-devel and get consensus before doing so (even in experimental).