On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 10:19:25PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:28:54PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 08:37:44AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I disagree - reusing file names with different contents in a > > > Debian-format archive is IMO always wrong regardless of the time elapsed > > > between uses - but it's unlikely to be worth arguing. > > > > Do you happen to know what was the reason somebody way back in time > > decided to not consider the epoch in the filenames? > > My understanding is that it would have caused some kind of problems for > common operations at the time involving things like tar, but I'm afraid > I forget the details. Ian Jackson would probably know ...
You can't put a : in a filename on a FAT filesystem. J. -- ... Purranoia: The fear that your cat is up to something.