On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 03:49:53PM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > No, I'm afraid that wouldn't address the issue. Fundamentally, it's > incorrect to use the package release number (after the hyphen) to > reflect a version number of the software being packaged (in this case > the patchlevel of the tarball). RPM is a bit inflexible in it's > approach to using a hyphen as the version-release separator, but none > the less, it's now a well established strategy.
It's a historical inanity. For the record, dpkg simply considers the *last* hyphen in the version to be the separator, and you can include as many other hyphens as you like before that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
