Re: Understanding versioning.
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html
>
> > epoch
>
> > This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be omitted,
> > in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the upstream_version
> > may not contain any colons.
> >
> > It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older versions
> > of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering schemes, to
> > be left behind.
>
> What does that non-sensical sounding explanation mean? Its not as if
> it is explained at the URL cited.
It is a version override. For an epoch of "n", *any* version without an epoch
or with an epoch that is lower than "n" will be considered *older*.
So 5:0.0.1 is NEWER than 1000000000.2.3, or than 1:9.1.4.
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