Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Feb 2018 17:50:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization The Debian Project, http://www.debian.org/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:18:03AM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> You can't put a : in a filename on a FAT filesystem.

Interestingly enough, you *can* put a : in a filename on an NTFS
filesystem, if you do it with ntfs-3g. Windows won't like it, though.
Yes, I found that out the hard way ;-)

(though this was several years ago, and ntfs-3g might have been patched
in the mean time to no longer support that, but I have no way of testing
anymore...)