-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 3:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:37:37PM -0700, Bill Webster wrote: > > I was confused by the fact that the packages say 'Version: 4:...'. In > > fact why do they? > > Not entirely certain. I usually ignore anything before the : in > Debian version numbers, they seem to be insignificant.
Actually they are the MOST significant. They are a mechanism to keep the rest of the versioning sane in case the upstream authors or a mistake screws up the rest of the version numbers and its necessary to go backwards. - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+T5/YuFHxcV2FFoIRAj+VAKCBNApOXs0iv2Ms7ZzXveB55uCZdACePb6V phXohT5bWQNjN+s9vIkPBEA= =SHV/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
