Re: Package split/merge advice

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Yes, technically this works. But then the version numbers do not
> correspond at all to the version numbers used by upstream. And you get
> in trouble if upstream changes his packaging and distributes all data in
> a single tar.gz:
>
> dpkg --compare-versions 2004-12-07 lt 3.0; echo $?

You can still use a version like 0.0.0.20041207 (hoping the first
upstream release with a real version number will have less than 3
leading zeros...).

-- 
Florent