Re: Bug#16832: marked as done (dpkg-name doesn't work with epochs)

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Guy closed the bug which contained this patch:
> Apply this:
> 
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
>         if p=`dpkg-deb -f -- "$1" package`;
>         then
>                 v=`dpkg-deb -f -- "$1" version`;
> +               v=${v#[0-9]*:}
>                 r=`dpkg-deb -f -- "$1" revision`;
>                 if [ -z "$r" ];
>                 then

Of course, this will generate filenames containing colons, which may
be suboptimal for many applications.  Perhaps I should have used a
comma for the epoch character to start with ...

Ian.