Joey Hess wrote:
> Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>> Severity: important
> 
> Filenames of .deb files are not important.
They are important. Unless .deb have a "canonical" name, I cannot use packed
.debs as cached archives to install with cupt/apt.

>> $ dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
>> ii  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo            1:1.2.2-1
>> $ fakeroot -u dpkg-repack xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
>> dpkg-deb: building package `xserver-xorg-video-voodoo' in
>> `./xserver-xorg-video-voodoo_1.2.2-1_amd64.deb'
> 
> This is done by dpkg-deb when building any package with an epoch in any
> way. Epochs are not intended to be user-visible.
> 
This is news for me. Where can I find the source of this statement?

Anyway, I need the way the rename the target file to the name I want to have.
As I understand, the best I can do is guess the target .deb name by package
name, right? I.e. no option where I can specify the target name myself?

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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