Removing a comment from images

[Mike Reinehr]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 01:29 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> No. Using synaptic I got this for a version name:
> 4:5.5.7.9-1.

I've been wondering about Debian versions for some time and finally stumbled 
across the answer this past week in the Debian Policy Manual:

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version

The is epoch 4 (whatever that means), software version 5.5.7.9, Debian package 
version 1.

Cheers!

mike

> I can't interpret this version name. Is this version 5 or 4?
> If version 5, what's the 4 for?
>
> Joel
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:35:44AM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Joel Hammer wrote:
> > >2. Try the binary install method, which required me to:
> > >	a.  do the ldconfig thing
> > >	b.  move the binaries into a directory in my path
> > >	c.  export the the home directory of imagemagick.
> > >#2 worked.
> > >So, now I have
> > >     ImageMagick 5.5.7 11/05/03 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> > >     Copyright: Copyright (C) 2003 ImageMagick Studio LLC
> > >and the convert -comment command now works as expected.
> > >
> > >BTW, it took me about an hour to fiddle with getting imagemagick
> > >installed (I tried several other things for getting the binaries to
> > > work, eg. symbolic links and shell scripts). You just have got to love
> > > debian. Installing most software it if comes from the lindows warehouse
> > > takes one mouse click.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Joel
> >
> > Debian sid has version 5.5.7. Did you try it? (apt-get or
> > packages.debian.org)
> >
> > --
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >
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