On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > for all future time. People make mistakes choosing version numbers, > and we have a mechanism for recovering these mistakes. People being > ``inventive'' so they can maintain the aesthetic beauty of a control > file that is rarely seen by anyone is a waste of all our time.
it's more than just 'aesthetic beauty'. 'dpkg -l' output is hard-coded for 80 columns, and there are only a limited number of character positions available for the version number. extracting the version from the listing is not possible for long version strings. yes, this is a bug in dpkg, and should be fixed. but the problem exists now, and if dpkg's revision history is anything to go by will continue to exist for a long long time. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
