Larry, you're the first person to try to use epochs, and I'm sorry you're having trouble. Obviously they weren't tested well. What version of dpkg are you using ? Some epoch-related bugs were fixed in one of the 1.4.0.x releases that Heiko made. Ian. -- 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