Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

 Rob> Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
 >> 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

 Rob> Well, it's definitely broken. 

	Quite.

 Rob> Totally unclear what the Debian revision is.

	Umm, no. 
 Debian Revision: 1
 Package Version: 2.0.93-980414
 Package Name:    libc6-pre2.1-doc

	So the package appears to be legal, and have unambiguous
 versions and name. Whether this was intended is unclear.


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