On Sunday, May 13, 2012 06:28:03, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > 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. Just to let you know: debian-multimedia.org has just switched domain names to deb-multimedia.org I think this was done to comply with Debian's policy on domain name usage. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74
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