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Re:Python typosquatting is about more than typos by bigbubba on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:22PM (#24667154)
The mingw package (libz-mingw-w64) also has it backwards. As far as I can tell, that upstream gets it right ('mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib' I believe.)

Also, putting version number suffixes on package names when the package system already has a concept of version numbers never sat right with me. It seems like a hack around tooling deficiencies.

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Re:Python typosquatting is about more than typos by duskwuff on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:16PM (#24667605)
The Debian packaging system only allows one version of a package to be installed at a time, as it assumes that a newer version of a package will contain substantially the same files as a previous version. Versioned libraries install different files, and can be installed alongside each other.
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