OE makes heavy use of the revision field so it makes sense to 
enable it. We don't want the familiar stuff though so patch that 
out.

RP - 19/02/2008

Index: ipkg-0.99.163/pkg.c
===================================================================
--- ipkg-0.99.163.orig/pkg.c	2008-02-19 00:35:03.000000000 +0000
+++ ipkg-0.99.163/pkg.c	2008-02-19 00:36:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -1118,15 +1118,11 @@
 	  return r;
      }
 
-#ifdef USE_DEBVERSION
      r = verrevcmp(pkg->revision, ref_pkg->revision);
      if (r) {
 	  return r;
      }
 
-     r = verrevcmp(pkg->familiar_revision, ref_pkg->familiar_revision);
-#endif
-
      return r;
 }
 
@@ -1240,10 +1236,7 @@
 {
      char *complete_version;
      char *epoch_str;
-#ifdef USE_DEBVERSION
      char *revision_str;
-     char *familiar_revision_str;
-#endif
 
      if (pkg->epoch) {
 	  sprintf_alloc(&epoch_str, "%d:", pkg->epoch);
@@ -1251,33 +1244,18 @@
 	  epoch_str = strdup("");
      }
 
-#ifdef USE_DEBVERSION
      if (pkg->revision && strlen(pkg->revision)) {
 	  sprintf_alloc(&revision_str, "-%s", pkg->revision);
      } else {
 	  revision_str = strdup("");
      }
 
-     if (pkg->familiar_revision && strlen(pkg->familiar_revision)) {
-	  sprintf_alloc(&familiar_revision_str, "-fam%s", pkg->familiar_revision);
-     } else {
-	  familiar_revision_str = strdup("");
-     }
-#endif
 
-#ifdef USE_DEBVERSION
-     sprintf_alloc(&complete_version, "%s%s%s%s",
-		   epoch_str, pkg->version, revision_str, familiar_revision_str);
-#else
-     sprintf_alloc(&complete_version, "%s%s",
-		   epoch_str, pkg->version);
-#endif
+     sprintf_alloc(&complete_version, "%s%s%s",
+		   epoch_str, pkg->version, revision_str);
 
      free(epoch_str);
-#ifdef USE_DEBVERSION
      free(revision_str);
-     free(familiar_revision_str);
-#endif
 
      return complete_version;
 }
Index: ipkg-0.99.163/pkg_parse.c
===================================================================
--- ipkg-0.99.163.orig/pkg_parse.c	2008-02-19 00:35:03.000000000 +0000
+++ ipkg-0.99.163/pkg_parse.c	2008-02-19 00:38:42.000000000 +0000
@@ -105,9 +105,7 @@
 int parseVersion(pkg_t *pkg, char *raw)
 {
   char *colon, *eepochcolon;
-#ifdef USE_DEBVERSION
   char *hyphen;
-#endif
   unsigned long epoch;
 
   if (!*raw) {
@@ -149,23 +147,12 @@
   }
   strcpy(pkg->version, raw);
 
-#ifdef USE_DEBVERSION
   hyphen= strrchr(pkg->version,'-');
 
   if (hyphen) {
     *hyphen++= 0;
-    if (strncmp("fam", hyphen, 3) == 0) {
-      pkg->familiar_revision=hyphen+3;
-      hyphen= strrchr(pkg->version,'-');
-      if (hyphen) {
-	*hyphen++= 0;
-	pkg->revision = hyphen;
-      }
-    } else {
       pkg->revision = hyphen;
-    }
   }
-#endif
 
 /*
   fprintf(stderr,"Parsed version: %lu, %s, %s, %s\n",