JuliaLang/julia — pull request #8018 by kmsquire (2014-08-15 22:21:52+00:00)
Title: Enable parsing (and ignoring) of Debian epoch in version string

Allows parsing of strings like "5:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+fdkaac". The epoch (5 here) is ignored.

See http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man5/deb-version.5.html