Re: woody and available packages weirdness
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:16:29AM +1030, David Purton wrote:
>> amonst these packages are (interestingly)
>>
>> lilo (!)
>> version 21.4.3-2 installed
>> version 1:21.6-2 available according to debain web site
>>
>> why are these version numbers in such a different form and why isn't
>> this second version available?
>
>a few broken packages somehow leaked into testing (woody) by way of
>some bug in the testing script. the release manager has deleted these
>broken packages. lilo has about half a dozen release critical bugs
>because it blows away config files without asking and renders machines
>unbootable. (at least they are still showing up in the RCB list)
And, as for the different version numbers, that 1: is an epoch, used to
get around mistakes in version numbering. See
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-versions.html for the gory
details.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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