On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:29:28 +0000
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> That's a naive view. It would be nice if packages were always
> indefinitely forward- and backward-compatible, but that doesn't happen
> in the real world.
No, it doesn't. I don't think anyone here would even think that.
> Before taking the simplistic "considered harmful" view please consider *why*
> version numbers sometimes find their way into package names.
The question at hand is why people believe the only appropriate behavior
is to place the version number into the package name and not to figure out a
way to handle it with the version field or some other field so that it is
transparent to the end-user.
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