Re: debmake's 'release'--bug or rookie usage error?
The next release will include limited support for epochs. debmake does not
handle epochs in the current release.
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Larry Gilbert wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
>> Could be a problem with the release script. Check if the script can handle
>> your package name correctly.
>
>I'm not sure I would notice if it was handling the package name
>incorrectly. What is the easiest way to tell? Or would it be obvious
>enough for a dense person such as myself to notice? :-)
>
>I just realized that I forgot to mention one detail: the new version uses
>an epoch number to indicate the fact that version 11sep97 is newer than
>18apr97. So it really is 1:11sep97. But the epoch number is only
>indicated in the control files. Is that correct? I tried to work in a
>source directory that was actually named "xmorph-1:11sep97", but that
>seemed to break other things.
>
>Oh, and I did update using uupdate (in case that matters).
>
>
>
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