Rob Browning writes ("Re: dselect/dpkg & multiple versions"):
> Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > (Of course, I ca'n't offer code at the moment so my opinion carries little
> > weight.)
>
> That's not true. It just means that
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Brian C. White wrote:
> The reason I bring this up is that there are now several package that are
> _intentionally_ in the distribution multiple times with different versions:
>
> Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/text/gs_2.62-2.deb
> non-free/binary/gs_4.01-2.deb
This is the
> *** Bruce ***
> What's the "official" word on duplicate packages this way?
Ian Jackson wields the fiat power where software packaging is concerned.
Try dpkg_1.3.9 (or whatever version is now in incoming). Make up a good
test case and report the results as a bug.
Thanks
Bruce
I know that at one point the dselect/dpkg combination had fairly serious
problems if the same package name existed with multiple versions. I learned
this the hard way when I installed from a mirror that had not run to
completion and thus had not deleted the older packages.
Dpkg installed _both_ v
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