Debian Bug report logs - #18482
dpkg-buildpackage does not include epochs in filenames

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>

To: Debian Bugs <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dpkg-buildpackage does not include epochs in filenames

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 23:34:33 +0100 (CET)

Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0.20
Severity: wishlist

dpkg-buildpackage does not include epochs in filenames. With that, scripts
have to run `dpkg -I' (or a similar command) to get the exact version of a
.deb. This produces a lot of unnecessary overhead for scripts like
lintian.


Thanks,

Chris

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Message #10 received at 18482@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

To: 18482@bugs.debian.org

Subject: better way around this...

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:54:42 -0400

dpkg-buildpackage is not going to create a file name with the epoch, since
that is what policy decides. You can use `dpkg-deb -f foo.deb version' as
an alternative to `dpkg -I' however, which is much faster.

If this satisfies the bug report, please close it.

Ben

Message #15 received at 18482-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>

To: 18482-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: won't be implemented

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:26:29 +0200

As Ben Collins wrote in this bug back in 1999, dpkg-buildpackage is not 
going to change behaviour.  You can use dpkg-deb -f foo.deb version 
which is faster than dpkg -I.

I'm closing this bug.

- tfheen

Message #20 received at 18482@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>

To: 18482@bugs.debian.org

Subject: reopen, reassign

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:30:48 +0200

reopen 18482
reassign 18482 debian-policy
thanks

Sorry for closing this bug a bit fast;  I'm reassigning the bug to 
policy so the policy process can decide whether this should be changed 
or not.

- tfheen

Message #29 received at 18482@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>

To: 18482-done@bugs.debian.org, 18482@bugs.debian.org

Subject: This is not a policy issue

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:16:44 -0500

Hi,

        As far as I can tell, policy says nothing about the filename
 of the resulting deb -- and this is not something that policy should
 be doing, anyway.  The long standing current practice is to not have
 epochs in files names. If you want to see this changed, get dpkg
 changed, and change existing practice.

	At this point, the argument that this makes life unnecessarily
 hard for scripts does not hold much weight, since scripts have been
 coping with this for most of the life of Debian.

	I am closing this report.

	manoj
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