Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
> for all future time. People make mistakes choosing version numbers,
> and we have a mechanism for recovering these mistakes. People being
> ``inventive'' so they can maintain the aesthetic beauty of a control
> file that is rarely seen by anyone is a waste of all our time.
it's more than just 'aesthetic beauty'.
'dpkg -l' output is hard-coded for 80 columns, and there are only a
limited number of character positions available for the version number.
extracting the version from the listing is not possible for long version
strings.
yes, this is a bug in dpkg, and should be fixed. but the problem exists
now, and if dpkg's revision history is anything to go by will continue
to exist for a long long time.
craig
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