Re: native pkg versioning (was Re: Question about native packages)
* Brian May <bam@debian.org> [010205 02:39]:
> I disagree. Why should dpkg, for instance, which is specific to Debian
> come with a diff format.
Ah, but dpkg isn't specific to Debian. It is licensed in such a fashion
that allows its use in other projects.
(Of course, anyone likely to use dpkg elsewhere is liable to take our
version number as the 'upstream' version, grab the source, and repackage
the thing on their own.)
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