the point is still why? it's not hurting fink or dpkg for our usage. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest.
On 3-Feb-04, at 9:07 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
How does Debian handle this type of situation for their linux distros?
Has anyone tried asking the upstream folks for these packages not to do this?
dan
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:53:16AM -0700, TheSin wrote:dpkg does in the docs yes, but I've tested it with apt and dpkg and it doesn't hurt anything...but what ever I'll play god and change the upstream version.
On 3-Feb-04, at 4:39 AM, Max Horn wrote:
The dpkg specification explicitly forbids using "_" in the version, and in fact our specs never allowed it, either (though we never explicitly forbid it, either).
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