Re: GPL issues (Re: sources for Knoppix 4.02)
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:22:20PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 11 July 2006 at 13:45, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> | On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:05:02AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> |
> | > Let's start from first principles. A Debian package has a name
> | > matching a regexp package_1.2.3-1_arch.deb. Note the two
> | > underscores delineating the combined 'upstream-debian' version
> | > number. There is only one hyphen, and it separates the upstream
> | > number from the Debian number.
> |
> | There may be more than one hyphen; the _last_ one is the separator
> | (Debian policy 5.6.12).
>
> Thanks for catching that. I had it in the back of my mind as I even vaguely
> recall Ian Jackson discussing this in the mid nineties. I should have looked
> it up. So the heuristic is
>
> -- parse from the left for the first '_' to get the name
> -- parse from the right for the first '-' to get the Debian revision
> -- the remainder the is the upstream version, or whatever modification was
> done to it (e.g. adding '.csv.20060711' or some such).
So, what about this:
$ dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Version} ${Source}\n' e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs 1.38+1.39-WIP-2006.04.09-1
What would be the source package? Your best guess?
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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