Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > They are important. Unless .deb have a "canonical" name, I cannot use packed > .debs as cached archives to install with cupt/apt.
apt web-escapes various characters, including the : in an epoch, so
you would have to modify filenames even if the epoch was included.
(Anyway, I was referring to the bug report priority, which does not meet
policy's definition of important.)
> > This is done by dpkg-deb when building any package with an epoch in any
> > way. Epochs are not intended to be user-visible.
> >
> This is news for me. Where can I find the source of this statement?
dpkg 1.2.0:
* Epochs in version numbers implemented, using the syntax
<epoch>:<version>-<revision>. (Epoch not usually displayed.)
Although they eventually changed this policy, see #107449. So
perhaps they'd be willing to change dpkg-deb to include epochs now if asked.
> Anyway, I need the way the rename the target file to the name I want to have.
> As I understand, the best I can do is guess the target .deb name by package
> name, right? I.e. no option where I can specify the target name myself?
apt determines the filenames for its cache using the package name and version,
AFAIK.
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