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Re: Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen



Galen Hazelwood wrote:
> This is a legitimate version format.  You failed to upgrade dpkg
> before upgrading everything else.  Fellow Debian developers, we
> _really_ need to put up warnings that this needs to be done!  Otherwise
> innocent people will corrupt their systems by upgrading. 

Maybe we need to build an "expiry date" into dpkg?  ie.  dpkg will not
install any packages that are newer than the expiry date, other than dpkg 
(and friends).

Cheers,

 - Jim


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