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Re: 2008Q1 -> current: downgrade
>> T6: pkgsrc can now package foo-0.14.2,1
>> T7: pkgsrc patches the package, and it becomes foo-0.14.2nb1,1
> For about XIV centures or so humans use positional notation ;) Please
> do not place the most significant part of the package version after
> the least significant.
I think the same EPOCH position and notation is ideal for pkgsrc.
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html
5.6.12 Version
The version number of a package. The format is:
[epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision]
The three components here are:
epoch
This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be
omitted, in which case zero is assumed.
...
It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older
versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering
schemes, to be left behind.
--
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.
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