Robert Leslie writes ("Re: New ftp method for dselect"): > > Exceptions: (the ones I saw, anyway) > > stable/binary/net/bind-4.9.3-BETA24-1.deb > > debian-1.0/binary/net/bind-4.9.3-BETA26-2.deb > > If there are no objections I think I will rename the next version of the bind > package to something like: > bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.* > Hopefully this will be kinder to software needing to parse package names.
Well, I was going to object, but I see that you've already done it. You might like to consider reversing the change so that people can upgrade without having to invoke dpkg manually (dselect invokes it with --refuse-downgrade). I'll be posting later about how I think the FTP method should be done. Ian.