Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

> Hi,
> >>"Philip" == Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
> 
>  Philip> I think the ``one underscore, many dashes'' layout must be
>  Philip> legal, since we already have some
>  Philip> (libc6-pre2.1-doc_2.0.93-980414-1.deb, it had to be libc6,
>  Philip> didn't it ;)
> 
> 	You are mixing file names with versions now. versions can't
>  have an underscrore. So, your example, the package name is
>  libc6-pre2.1-doc. The upstream version is 2.0.93-980414, and the
>  debian revision is 1. This is also not a good solution to the
>  rpe-release problem (not that anyone is proposing it).

I was just using that as an example of an existing package that had multiple 
minuses in the version.

I didn't make it up, I got it out of hamm:

     hamm/hamm/binary-all/doc/libc6-pre2.1-doc_2.0.93-980414-1.deb

Cheers, Phil.



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