On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > Distribution file names don't parse at the moment because you can't > disambiguate the package name from the version number. I had suggested > that we standardize package names so that FTP scripts would work better > and would not have to carry around a package-to-filename cross-reference. > It's a bit more ugly, I agree.
dchanges(1) seems to parse distribution filenames OK, though the parsing code is pretty ugly. If it's broken, please let me know.