Re: [SCM] dpkg's main repository branch, master, updated. 1.16.2-81-g3d5278b
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Sven Joachim wrote:
> This seems to break dpkg-genchanges, e.g. when building acpid:
And it will break many infrastructure tools. I know that various QA tools
build the path name directly from the package name and the version without
referring to any "Packages" files. And they explicitely strip the epoch
when doing so...
It means the archive will be inconsistent during quite a long time with
packages where the epoch is and is not in the filename.
IMO this change needs further discussion and buy in before being deployed.
Also why doing it only for .deb and not for the source package too ? At
least the ".dsc/.debian.tar.gz/.diff.gz" should follow the same rule IMO.
Cheers,
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