Re: problem with distribution or packaging
Ah you missed out on the fact we got epochs working. Upgrade to dpkg 1.4.0.8
This should fix everything.
Shaya
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> I (thought I had) obtained a fresh copy of the entire distribution last
> Friday. Today I tried to install new packages using dselect. As soon
> as I updated the Packages file, I got an error message for 7 packages,
> indicating that the file /var/lib/dpkg/available had empty version
> numbers for them. In fact, there was a bogus "1:" at the start of
> their version number in the Packages file, and also in the changelog file
> for the one package (tf) where I checked it.
>
> The packages are:
>
> unstable/binary-i386/libs/aout-svgalib_1.2.10-2.deb
> unstable/binary-i386/libs/svgalib1_1.2.10-2.deb
> unstable/binary-i386/devel/svgalib1-dev_1.2.10-2.deb
> unstable/binary-i386/mail/mailx_8.1.1-3.deb
> unstable/binary-i386/libs/zlib1_1.0.4-6.deb
> unstable/binary-i386/devel/zlib1-dev_1.0.4-6.deb
> unstable/binary-i386/games/tf_3.5b1-1.deb
>
> Here are my questions:
> -- did I somehow get the wrong copy of the archive?
> -- is there a problem with the archiver software? It seems like it's a least
> a problem that these programs weren't rejected by the archive software.
> -- are these individual problems with the programs? If so, should I just
> submit individual bugs to the rest of them? (I've already reported bugs
> against tf).
>
> Susan Kleinmann
>
>
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