On 12-05-13 at 10:51am, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Sunday, May 13, 2012 06:28:03, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On 12-05-13 at 11:49am, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Mike Hommey, le Sun 13 May 2012 11:16:13 +0200, a écrit : > > > > The versions they had by then had an epoch. Supposedly, to make > > > > the new versions greater than these, I have to add an epoch. But > > > > do I really need to care about making the new versions greater > > > > than these packages last seen 4 years ago? (sarge EOL was in > > > > 2008) > > > > > > There are installed systems which upgraded from sarge up to > > > squeeze which can still have the old package installed. (I mean > > > systems, not machines, the system is migrated from an hdd to > > > another to save reconfiguration etc.) > > > > Yes, some systems have packages installed that Debian do not > > support: Debian do not support keeping obsolete packages installed. > > > > That said, it is not _forbidden_ to track version numbers of Ubuntu, > > debian-multimedia.org and obsolete Debian distro releases. > > Just to let you know: > debian-multimedia.org has just switched domain names to > deb-multimedia.org > > I think this was done to comply with Debian's policy on domain name > usage.
Not yet switched but renewed the old name, advertising new site one only in words - not technically with 301 redirection (yes, unsupported by APT but could be put on e.g. front page), and recently renewing old site: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2012-May/026787.html - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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