On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:58:33PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: > I'm getting ready to upload a new version of crash (finally!), > but I've run into a small problem. The upstream version > includes a dash. (i.e. the current version looks like 3.8-2.1) > > Now, for a while I was going under the assumption that this was > not okay, so I changed the version to 3.8.2.1, which worked > great. > > I took a look in the policy manual, and I've been lead to > believe that having a hyphen in the upstream version is okay: It is technically allowed. If you try to do it, you will discover that it is a monumentally bad idea. The ambiguity makes it impossible for tools to behave intelligently. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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