On May 27, Thomas Koenig wrote > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > People will probably have told you this, but the Packages file > > was not corrupted, those 1:x.x.xx are critical (these are epochs), > > and the problem actually is that the version of dpkg being used is > > too old to understand epochs. > > OUCH. > > Is there any reason why this can't be handled in a different field? > Breaking compatibility for something like this is <censored>.
These packages should conflict with the versions of dpkg which have the problem. [Or maybe a predepends on a good version of dpkg?] -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
