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Stefan Tatschner

15 Jun 2014 15 Jun '14

12:30 p.m.

Hi, just because I'm inquisitive. What's the purpose of version numbers with a colon? I've seen this in several packages, e.g. this one [1]. Upstream version number is 5.0.2 and arch version number is 1:5.0.2. Regards, Stefan [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-setuptools/

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Guillaume ALAUX

15 Jun 15 Jun

12:36 p.m.

On 15 June 2014 14:30, Stefan Tatschner <rumpelsepp@sevenbyte.org> wrote:

Hi, just because I'm inquisitive. What's the purpose of version numbers with a colon? I've seen this in several packages, e.g. this one [1]. Upstream version number is 5.0.2 and arch version number is 1:5.0.2.

Regards, Stefan

[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-setuptools/

This is the `epoch` as explained here https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html

Stefan Tatschner

2:02 p.m.

Am Sonntag, den 15.06.2014, 14:36 +0200 schrieb Guillaume ALAUX:

This is the `epoch` as explained here https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html

Thanks for clarifying!

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