On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:40:14 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-05-13 11:49 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Mike Hommey, le Sun 13 May 2012 11:16:13 +0200, a écrit : > >> The versions they had by then had an epoch. Supposedly, to make the new > >> versions greater than these, I have to add an epoch. But do I really > >> need to care about making the new versions greater than these packages > >> last seen 4 years ago? (sarge EOL was in 2008) > > > > There are installed systems which upgraded from sarge up to squeeze > > which can still have the old package installed. > > For the packages in question this is quite unlikely, since their > successors libnspr4-0d and libnss3-0d declared conflicts on them. > Accordingly, neither libnspr4 nor libnss3 show up on > http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_inst, so I think leaving out the > epoch is fine. Not sure if dak will agree, though. > dak forgets about packages once they're not in any suite, so it won't mind. I'd say it's a bug though, so I think reintroducing the package with the epoch would be both safer and cleaner.
Cheers, Julien
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