Re: gawk

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

> Do you have a good suggestion for what to sbstitute for the : ?
> It must be something that can never be a different valid version number in
> Debian and works with make and at other places without special quoting.

Perhaps "colon": [...]/package/gawk/version/1colon3.0.6-1

Packages using epochs will always use them, so it is impossible that a
different version of the same package, when replacing ":" by "colon",
yields the same result. For the purposes of the autobuilder, I think this
would be enough.