Re: Bug#8294: dpkg: Packages with epochs make old Debian installations not upgradable
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to change the few packages that use epochs so that
> the old version of dpkg can handle it? IMHO most users would prefer it if
> dpkg won't upgrade a single package (because its version number is
> conseridered less than the installed one) instead of having to go through
> this pain. (It's not much pain unless you know how to do it :-)
Versions of dpkg >= 1.4.0.7 should support epochs correctly. The epoch
was created to allow packages with wierd numbering sequences to work
correctly, if you change packages, newer versions of dpkg won't recognise
that the newer (non-epoch) package is actually newer.
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