Re: svgalib and packaging....
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently working on creating a new svgalib package, since no one
> else seems to want it. (Although, I want to make sure I can manage it
> before I 'officially' take it over :). Svgalib is by far my largest,
> most complicated packaging attempt to date, and I've run into a little
> stickiness. So, the following questions come up:
>
> 1) due to the numbering scheme given the old package, (1.2.8 was
> packaged as 1.28), any attempts to package svgalib as 1.2.10 fails
> (1.210 would work for the moment, but it seems to me it's just putting
> off problems.). what would be the right way to force it to recognize
> 1.28 as an upgrade from 1.2.10
This sounds like a good place to used the epoch scheme.
Hope this helps,
Shaya
--
Shaya Potter
spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com
Reply to: