Re: SOLVED: Re: Bug#8294: dpkg: Packages with epochs make old Debian installations not upgradable

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 25 Mar 1997, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:

> 
> One thing we might consider doing, upon a Great Dpkg Rewrite, would be
> to have dpkg record in the control information of each package the
> version of dpkg with which it was built, as well as a list of features
> used.  Upon installation, the user's dpkg could then verify that that
> all those features are present, and we could use dpkg numbering to
> represent major interface changes.  Then we would put the
> responsibility for making sure packages are compatible upon dpkg
> rather than the maintainer.
> 
This would just make all the previous versions of dpkg "completely" broken
with respect to new packages. Since the current problem is "fixed" by
upgrading to a proper dpkg version, I don't see a difference except for
the massive work of changing over all the packages effected.

Luck,

Dwarf
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