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Re: Guidelines docs on ftp.debian.org.

(Version numbering schemes do generate an amazing amount of heat,
don't they? l-)

>I can answer that (even without shouting) quite easily: dpkg isn't
>the only program that needs to parse this. Think about dftp for
>example, or some scripts that Jane Doe might write for herself on her
>computer as a perl exercise. We could of course require a PhD for
>parsing our numbers...

I don't use dftp; could someone explain why it needs to parse
filenames in such a way that the presence of absence of a revision
field is important?

I note that the most recent Packages file I have to hand has the
package name and version number already broken out.

I don't think random people writing simple scripts is a good argument
for doing anything a particular way, to be perfectly honest.

>I think I made my point now. I would appreciate it if others could
>join the debate. Maybe we could even have a "poll" or a "vote"?

It really doesn't look like we're going to achieve a consensus any
other way...

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             Well, sure, the government lies, and the newspapers lie, but in a
                                        democracy they aren't the same lies...