Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] list-applications: Add support for pacman
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 03:57:53PM +0200, Nikos Skalkotos wrote:
It's not exactly a problem but Debian supports an epoch. The
format is
like this:
[epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision]
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
Right now if a package has a version like this: 1:1.2.3-1, libguestfs
will translate it as:
epoch=0
version = 1:1.2.3
release=1
The same thing does my patch for pacman. If we are to leave it like
this, then it makes more sense to do the same for pacman, otherwise in
both cases the version field should be translated to:
epoch=1
version = 1.2.3
release=1
Yes it obviously makes more sense to separate out the epoch field.
Rich.
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