Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> writes: > The remaining open question is how to deal with historical packages. I > personally would be happier if "dpkg" and higher-level tools did not > introduce incompatibilities with the historical format when it's easy > not to, since being able to install old packages to "bisect" an old bug > is very useful. But I realize I might be in the minority.
I think this is an interesting conversation, but so far as I can tell it's not particularly relevant to Policy. There are no such packages with those version numbers currently in Debian, so Policy can simply say that there will never be in the future either and be done with it. There is a remaining issue for out-of-archive packages, but I think that's between maintainers of those packages and the dpkg maintainers about what dpkg may support beyond what Debian requires. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
