On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:33:48AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > >> I can do that (but not before friday), but as it is very simple and > >> short I'll repeat it here: Take an extracted package (I used > >> volume.app), append ~ to the version-number in debian/changelog > >> and run "dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -sd -rfakeroot -S". The resulting > >> source-package cannot be unpacked with woody's dpkg-source. > > > Well, duh. You can't do that. > > I could. dpkg-buildpackage did it without any error. > > Did you intend to say "You may not?". That is fair enough if it > documented, i.e. there is a list in /usr/share/doc/dpkg/DO_NOT: > > * Though shalt not use '~' version numbers until sarge is released > * Though shalt not use comments in debian/control, until ... > ... > > I know that these things are already implicitely verboten, because > policy does not allow them, but if dpkg-* supports them and additional > warning is helpful. Do you also want warnings about not putting "rm -rf /" in maintainer scripts, or printing out the source to dpkg and attempting to eat it? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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