Re: xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-2 is too long a filename

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Peter Constantinidis wrote:

> Hi, I was poking around at:
>
> http://www.distrowatch.com/debian
>
> I see that due to the length, it trunctuates after the '1' meaning
> Distrowatch will never be able to report the SID revision unless the name
> is shortened, or distrowatch's columns are widened.

Probably you didn't realize that distrowatch shows only "upstream"
version. The last "-Y" number is missing from all the packages. In the
case of Xfree86 our upstream version is 4.3.0.dfsg.1 that is almost 4.4
without all non-free parts stripped out.

Thanks
Fabio

PS If this was a joke, or you are on drugs.. can i have the phone number
of your pusher? ;)

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