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.
Which is actually another reason for using epochs, that I'd not previously
realised, since epochs don't show up, whereas random suffixes do:
[phil] palm:~$ dpkg -l libgtk1
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=b
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-=========================================
ii libgtk1 1.0.4-1 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
^^^^^^^
Nice clean version here, but wait...
[phil] palm:~$ dpkg -s libgtk1
Package: libgtk1
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 862
Maintainer: Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
Source: gtk+
Version: 1:1.0.4-1 <----- Shock Horror!!! I've seen an epoch, I'll
... have to pluck my eyes out now ;-)
Cheers, Phil.
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