In <[🔎] 200906200345.35499.peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>, Peter Fritzsche wrote: >The idea behind it is that the 3: can go away No, it can't. The part before the first colon is the "epoch" and it is assumed to be 0 for any package that doesn't have one. Therefore any version without an epoch will be considered to be a lower version (that 3:1.1-2) by dpkg and any higher-level tools, including apt. Once an epoch is in place, it is required to stay. That's one reason the should be avoided if possible. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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