Wed, 22 Nov 2006
Why Don't They Just uuencode the File in the Filename?
Can someone please explain these updated packages and how the version numbering works. Multiple ubuntu kiddies have tried on multiple occasions and it just never makes any sense to me.
Ubuntu 5.10: firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.5.10 firefox-dev 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06 firefox-dev 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06 libnspr-dev 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06 libnspr4 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06 libnss-dev 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06 libnss3 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.8-0ubuntu0.6.06
Those were taken from here. But honestly, what the hell do they mean? I'd like to know what version of a piece of software I'm running, and it shouldn't take a complicated explanation of some almost random string of characters to make me understand it.
Though nothing beats the way they name their CUPS packages...
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-4ubuntu16.5. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
posted at: 07:34 | tags: ubuntu, linux, stupidity | path: /entries/rant | permanent link to this entry
