On Sunday, May 13, 2012 13:41:13, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-05-13 at 10:51am, Chris Knadle wrote: > > 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. I was talking about this announcement on the d-m.o mailing list: http://www.deb-multimedia.org/lurker/message/20120510.082033.f48a991f.en.html > Not yet switched but renewed the old name, advertising new site one only > in words - not technically with 301 redirection (yes, unsupported by APT > but could be put on e.g. front page), Concerning the old domain name: - Website lists the change (at least in words) on the front page. - Repository links point to the new domain name. - Website sidebar removed only on the old domain name. New deb-multimedia-keyring package replaces the debian-multimedia-keyring package. Both old and new repositories updated during the transition. If apt doesn't support redirection then I'm not sure what else he could do. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74
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