Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...
Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
Dale> On 24 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Dale> You agree in the first paragraph quoted above that epochs, in this case,
Dale> "are completely overriding the version number ..." and seem unwilling to
Dale> admit that this is "just subverting the ordering".
No, we are not "completely overriding the version
numbers". What we are doing is taking the upstream numbers, not
warping them (I can just see Ted T'so saying what the $#^%$ is 2.0.7
*r*? Debian is doing its won thing again); and using epochs, a
utility provided by our packaging system, to ensure that the upstream
ordering is preserved.
I fail to see this as subverting the ordering.
Dale> It sounds like you are suggesting that it would be worthwhile to use
Dale> epochs on every release of a package, bumping the epoch number each time
Dale> to ensure its proper sequence recognition by dpkg.
Yes.
manoj
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