Re: Incorrect version in packages names

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:35:12PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 4:16 PM
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>> >and in setup.ini :
>> >@ kdelibs-2
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Get rid of this.  I suspect that it is confusing setup.exe.
>> It should certainly do the right thing without it.
>
>Doh!. Good catch Chris.
>
>Yes, foo-bar is allowable as a package name, foo-2 is not. I'll see what I
>can do for a future setup.exe release to address this, but don't expect
>anything soon. It'll require altering the installed.db database format,
>which results in a non-backwards compatible local environment.

upset would probably do the right thing with the above but I really don't
see any reason to use it, regardless.  I don't see any reason why a user
would need to know that these are kdelibs-2 when it is pretty obvious from
the version number.

cgf