On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:37:58 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older >>versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering >>schemes, to be left behind. > > What does this mean? From other posts in the thread it is still not > clear to me. If You can explain, please do so. > > Also what is epoch in this sense? I now time is measured in UNIX systems > since the first system ran - it's obvious - a new great OS generation > has started and till now rolls on. But what about the package epoch they > use?
I think Henrique de Moraes already explained this quite well :-) Although I was not aware of the inners, I was taking that number as a kind of internal string to help packagers to control software versioning. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.11.07.14.52...@gmail.com
