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Re: KDE 3? or 4?



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On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 3:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:37:37PM -0700, Bill Webster wrote:
> > I was confused by the fact that the packages say 'Version: 4:...'. In
> > fact why do they?
>
> Not entirely certain.  I usually ignore anything before the : in
> Debian version numbers, they seem to be insignificant.

Actually they are the MOST significant.  They are a mechanism to keep the rest 
of the versioning sane in case the upstream authors or a mistake screws up 
the rest of the version numbers and its necessary to go backwards.


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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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