Re: naming of newt package
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:36:53PM +0900, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:
> hi-
>
> i've been wondering...why is newt named things like 'newt0.21' or
> 'newt0.25' instead of 'newt_0.21' or 'newt_0.25'?
>
> looking at the answer to question 6.3 in the debian faq, it appears
> that 'newt0.21' and 'newt0.25' are package names for different packages --
> that is, '0.21' and '0.25' appear to be part of the package name in
> these cases.
>
> is this intentional?
Lets hope so ;)
What this doe sis make the version name part of the package. This is done
because often differnt versions are incompatible with eachother.
It i scommon with libraries....
The problem is normally when you install a new version of a package the
old version is removed...this would break anything using the old version
so this allows you to install both versions
(ie. libc5 and libc6 etc)
-Steve
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