On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 02:32:05PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Hmm, but how about an 1.2beta6 ? [..] At this point I don't claim to have the foggiest. It was decided by a fairly large group more than a year ago that this is a problem and a fairly serious one in dpkg. No attempt has been made to fix it and maybe I'm just being too frustrated right now but I have very little desire to fight with it just now. I'm rooting for dpkgv2 or whatever they're calling it this week. You did get an answer though: <doogie> Knghtbrd: 1.2-0beta6.1 lt 1.2-1 You'll probably have to use -sa with dpkg-buildpackage for the first 1.2-0beta6.1 though. Have fun and remenber that smashing your hardware won't fix dpkg so it actually works as designed, much less as we all think it should... => -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Raymond: I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck. Richard Stallman: Any software that isn't free sucks. Linus Torvalds: I'm interested in free beer. Richard Stallman: That's okay, as long as I don't have to drink it. I don't like beer. -- LinuxWorld Expo panel, 4 March 1999
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