Re: Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

On May 27, Thomas Koenig wrote
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 
> >	People will probably have told you this, but the Packages file
> > was not corrupted, those 1:x.x.xx are critical (these are epochs),
> > and the problem actually is that the version of dpkg being used is
> > too old to understand epochs. 
> 
> OUCH.
> 
> Is there any reason why this can't be handled in a different field?
> Breaking compatibility for something like this is <censored>.

These packages should conflict with the versions of dpkg which
have the problem.  [Or maybe a predepends on a good version of
dpkg?]

-- 
Raul


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