On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 01:37:43PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 05:06:00PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 10:43:17AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > >> > and the version number issue is only an Ubuntu-specific problem (given > >> > that the original 1.0.51-1 was superseded in 2006). > >> > >> I agree this is an Ubuntu issue with their infrastructure. > > > >I disagree - reusing file names with different contents in a > >Debian-format archive is IMO always wrong regardless of the time elapsed > >between uses - but it's unlikely to be worth arguing. > > Agreed 100%. This continues to cause problems for other consumers of > the Debian archive, not just the Ubuntu infrastructure.
BTW, making epoch part of the filename was rejected by the debian archive admins: https://bugs.debian.org/645895 -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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