Re: versioning

["Tom Cato Amundsen" <tca@gnu.org>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 09:19:15PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> one of my packages, nbd, is in the archive now as version "nbd_14-1". This
> version is derived from the filename of the upstream tarball, which is
> "nbd.14.tar.gz", as downloaded from his personal page at a university.
> 
> However, upstream has changed to using sourceforge now, and in the process
> changed his versioning system. Right now, the upstream version is
> "1.2". Which, of course, will not reach the archive -- or even if it
> _would_ reach the archive, I doubt dpkg will accept it as "newer".
> 
> What should I do to handle this "the right way"?
> 
Use an epoch. See the debian-policy, section 4.

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> wouter dot verhelst at advalvas in belgium
> 
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