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Re: Dovecot installs 1.0.15, not 1:1.0



Hi,

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:13:47PM +0000, Andy Hailes wrote:
Subject: Dovecot installs 1.0.15, not 1:1.0
                                       ^
> Returned 1.0.15, not 1.1.0.
                        ^
Looks like you misread ':' as '.' - '1:' is a Debian-specific addition
to the version number called "epoch" that is used e.g. to fix an error
in previous version numbers of the package. '1:<something>' is a higher
version than any version without an epoch.

HTH,
Sebastian

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