On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 05:40 +0100, thibaut noah wrote:
I think i misunderstand things on version numbers, thought 2:2.5.0-6 means version 2.2... From what you say i have the feeling that i might be wrong about this.
epoch:version
epoch 2 version 2.5.0-6
Go by the decimals, file version something *point* something, has to have decimals in it. I've never got a grip on why there's hyphens in the version numbers, though.
The epoch is a kind of hammer to crack a walnut, when someone needs to force an "I am the greatest," when there is another package with a higher version number.