[arch-general] Question on version numbers

Stefan Tatschner rumpelsepp at sevenbyte.org
Sun Jun 15 08:30:29 EDT 2014


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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