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Re: epoch fix?



On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 05:55:22PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Philip Hands 
> > ~ (tilde) with it's magic negative sort order, does work however:
> > 
> >     0~20130215
> 
> 0~something is pretty magic and sometimes confuses tools, though, since
> it's a positive version number that's less than zero.  (I know the
> import stuff in Launchpad got confused back in the days, but that's
> probably been fixed since,

Fixed a while ago, indeed, largely by the relevant script being entirely
superseded by something better.  (It was never a fatal flaw - it just
required some tedious manual work.)

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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