On 12-05-13 at 11:49am, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mike Hommey, le Sun 13 May 2012 11:16:13 +0200, a écrit : > > The versions they had by then had an epoch. Supposedly, to make the > > new versions greater than these, I have to add an epoch. But do I > > really need to care about making the new versions greater than these > > packages last seen 4 years ago? (sarge EOL was in 2008) > > There are installed systems which upgraded from sarge up to squeeze > which can still have the old package installed. (I mean systems, not > machines, the system is migrated from an hdd to another to save > reconfiguration etc.) Yes, some systems have packages installed that Debian do not support: Debian do not support keeping obsolete packages installed. That said, it is not _forbidden_ to track version numbers of Ubuntu, debian-multimedia.org and obsolete Debian distro releases. ...but the question was if that is _needed_. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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