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Re: GroundZero (third party deb repository)




On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:

> If 2 versions of .deb with identical version numbers are a problem, what
> about alien? Currently, you can alienize a .rpm and possibly end up with a
> .deb with a version number that matches one in debian. If we get an origin:
> field, alien could use that. I thought about mangling the version number of
> alienized packages, but that's ugly..

Yep, in this case alien will cause problems. It is fairly vital that there
be only one .deb with the same name and md5sum. 

Jason


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