On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 03:05:59PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon scrawled: > Don't look at me. The "3" in the mesa packages makes me puke. It's > old historical baggage (you probably know why it's there in the first > place -- but don't ask me why the xlibmesa packages have that ugly 3 or > 4 or whatever in them). As you are well aware of, changing a package's > name in Debian is next to impossilbe. Provides isn't enough because > versioned provides don't exist, and that's because everytime the topic > is discussed, people amuse themselves with corner cases. The reasoning > is that if a feature exists and it can be used in technically wrong > ways, it *will* *be* used in those ways. And I better stop here before > I start ranting about Debian's organization at large.
The 3 in 4.2.1's xlibmesa packages, and hence the 4 in my 4.2.99.x xlibmesa packages, reflects the major version of Mesa used. I hope this message gets through, because I CANNOT SEND MAIL TO THE LISTS, AND IT IS REALLY STARTING TO IRK ME. master swallows it and it disappears. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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