clipka wrote:
> - According to information on the Debian wiki, Lenny is supposed to use
> KDE 3.5.
> - The "kde" main package and a few others have version number "5:48".
> - Most other pagages named "kde*" bear version numbers "4:3.5.some".
> - Yet others bear version numbers "4:4.1.some" (some of them are titled
> kdebase-runtime*".
> 
> Anyone have some idea how to interpret this?

Step 1: ignore the "4:" at the beginning of KDE package versions, it's a 
Debian thing.

The thing before the colon is an "epoch". It's there so that if someone 
messes up with version numbers, or if the numbering scheme changes 
completely, they can increase the epoch to make sure the "is version X newer 
or older than Y" works properly.

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