On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Which uses debian/changelog ... the ":" is used to indicate a "period",
> > period can be used to use smaller upstream version if you increased it by
> > error (or if you really need to use an older upstream version).
> 
> > The period should be a single digit in most cases, and here you have a
> > period with dots in it.
> 
> For sake of clarity, this is called an epoch, not a period.
> 
> A period is the dot *in* the epoch. :)

Indeed ... /me hides ashamed (for yet another english vocabulary error).

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