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Re: xlibmesa naming and relationships



Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:43:33AM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled:
>> A broken package name to compensate for broken assumptions? Right. Give
>> it the Mesa version then, or document it in the description, or
>> wherever.
>
> You obviously don't understand how Debian's packaging system works.
> Please come back when you understand the fact that all binary packages
> carry the version assigned to the source package, and that this is
> invariable.

Err, no, that's complete BS.  Trivial counter-example: gcc-3.2.
(Search a Packages file for "Source:.*\(" for more examples)

-- 
James



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