Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

[David Jardine <david@jardine.de>]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:35:00PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote:

> [...]
>                          There is a problem. A package with the same 
> version number won't contain the same binaries at different T time in 
> the different trees.
> 
> Apt doesn't know about binaries. It only looks at the version number.
> 
> This means : the package-2.0 is my system (taken from the testing 
> repositories at (BIG-SWITCH -4)) could be different than the package-2.0 
> in the stable repositories. 

But surely it wouldn't be the same version number if it had been 
changed.  It would be 2.1 or 2.0.1 or something like that.  At 
least I presume it wouldn't be, otherwise what's the point of having 
version numbers in the first place?

Cheers,
David

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David Jardine

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