On Sunday, 23 April 2017 0:51 Jan Engelhardt wrote:

Of the projects which went to skyrocketing version numbers (controversial in their own right), such as firefox, systemd, ... none have dared to jump backwards. Because it'd fuck up version comparisons everywhere.

Right. Just one thing from the top of my head: mike@lion:~> rpm -qa --queryformat '%{VERSION}\n' | egrep '^42\.[12](\..*)?$' | wc -l 23 I'm pretty sure there will be others, more subtle and harder to work around (IIRC "zypper dup" is quite happy to downgrade a package if the installed version is no longer available in any active repository). Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org