Re: Installing php4-domxml fails due to missing zendapi
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:28:08AM +0300, Birzan George Cristian wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 09:38, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> > Wierd dependency - zendapi-20010901 does not look like a Debian product name.
>
> It is. According to the policy,
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-versions.html#s4.1, if the
> upstream package has a date-based versioning system, the Debian package
> should have the same. Even if the New Maintainers' Guide does state that
> the maintainer should prepend 0.0. to the date/version, that can be
> handled by epochs.
The New Maintainer's Guide is actually talking about real version
numbers here, as opposed to things in package names that just look a bit
like version numbers. So it's OK.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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