[Mageia-dev] Please ensure that packages have higher version than in mandriva 2010.2

[Michael scherer]

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:27:24AM +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> magnus said on Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:55:04PM +0200:
> > .Mondo: The version number in Mandriva is a little bit confusing.
> > 2.29.3 belongs to 2.2.9.3 in the origin mondo repository.
> > There is version 2.2.9.6 actually (2011-04-13).
> > So the Mageia version 2.2.9.5 is near by
> 
> Well, I thought that having a new distro was also the opportunity to
> remove the mistakes made in the past.
> 
> So as the upstream of mondo, I'd really like to see packages in Mageia
> using the upstream versions, and not stick to the legacy of Mandriva
> here.
> 
> Of course, for people updating that may create a problem, but not that
> difficult to solve and could be documented on a wiki page as known and
> justified incompatibilities.

Or you can use epoch.

While we are on it, what about afio ?
The license is unclear for fedora : 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037
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Michael Scherer