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Re: Bad version number based on date advice in policy?



Chad Walstrom wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:20:07PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > That always struck me as a rather poor idea. What if we have two
> > versions of a package, 1:1.0 and 2:1.0? Both will be foo_1.0_$ARCH.deb
> > at the moment.
> 
> IIRC, the actual filename in the archive is
> 
> 	foo_1.0-${EPOCH}%3a${DEBVER}_${ARCH}.deb.

No, they aren't.

That IIRC is something apt does with the debs, but the epoch
is _not_ in the filename of the debs in the archive..

Grüße/Regards,

René
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