Re: Version specific packages
On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 10:38:13AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> So `gri' would always point to the latest installed version, but
> `gri-VERSION' also existed and coexisted with prior versions. This is to
> protect the user from gri version incompatibilities after the user has
> spent a day tweaking a plot to look just right under a given version of
> gri.
It's done with libraries and the kernel already. This tends to produce
package names such as slang0.99.38-0.99.38-6; the package name
is slang0.99.38, the upstream version is 0.99.38, and the debian version
is 6. This allows slang0.99.34 (as in slang0.99.34-0.99.38-6) to coexist.
emacs does this, for example ({x,}emacs{19,20}), so it might be justified.
Ask on debian-policy to be sure.
Hamish
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