[Bio-linux-dev] [Fwd: Re: Non-digit version numbers with Ubuntu natty]

[Tim Booth]

Hi,

I've just renumbered several of the packages, as we'd apparently been
using illegal version numbers (starting with "bl").  The new version
numbers are a bit ugly but solve the problem described below.

The packages are unchanged.

Cheers,

TIM

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Brad Chapman <chapmanb at 50mail.com>
To: Booth, Timothy G. <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Non-digit version numbers with Ubuntu natty
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:12:07 +0100

Tim;
Thanks for digging into this and coming up with a quick fix. 
I'm not surprised people are upset; this seems like kind of an
arbitrary restriction. Thanks again,
Brad

> Hi Brad,
> 
> Hmmm - there is a fairly long thread on the Debian mailing list with
> people complaining about this change being added suddenly, but it looks
> like I can renumber as, eg., "1:1bl-0" so that should be OK.  I'll try
> and do it in the next few days.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> TIM
> 
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:38 +0100, Brad Chapman wrote:
> > Tim;
> > I was working on ugrading to the latest Ubuntu and apt is unhappy
> > about some of the version numbers in Bio-Linux packages. They start
> > with bl instead of numbers, so apt-get errors out with:
> > 
> > error in Version string 'bl1-0': version number does not start with digit
> > 
> > At least these packages are affected:
> > 
> > bio-linux-clustal
> > bio-linux-sequin
> > bio-linux-jalview
> > 
> > If there is a better place to send bug reports to than you just let
> > me know and I can forward there. Thanks,
> > Brad
> 
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