In implementing variants, I'm doing some percent expansions on Package
using %things that may not be known to previous fink. That means (I
think) that if a user selfupdates while running an older fink and
there are variant-ish .info files, his fink is gonna croak when it
tries to index (he's still under old-fink, since it's not yet known
that there is a new fink package).

So what should I do? The easiest seems to be having variant-package
descriptions use .vinfo (and only a fink that supports variants would
know to look for them). Should we go back a few years and add a
FinkInfoVersion field and have the indexer ignore files that have that
higher what version that fink can handle? Anything else?

dan

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