Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: [...]
>> What does that non-sensical sounding explanation mean? Its not as if >> it is explained at the URL cited. > > It is a version override. For an epoch of "n", *any* version without an epoch > or with an epoch that is lower than "n" will be considered *older*. > > So 5:0.0.1 is NEWER than 1000000000.2.3, or than 1:9.1.4. [...] Javier Barroso <javibarr...@gmail.com> writes: [...] > Hi, > > bash-completion has a clear example of use: > See /usr/share/doc/bash-completion/changelog.Debian.gz > After bash-completion (20080705) version the next version is 1.0, so > epoch had to be used > > busybox has another example (developper simply upload an package with > incorrect version): > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=97290 > > You can have fun time investigating which packages you have installed > has epoch in their version and why they have it, running attached perl > script ( I was boring this night ...) (I'll be stealing off that for a while... hehe). Ok, that all clears things up very nicely. Thank you both for taking time to clue me in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lirsr91p....@newsguy.com
