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Re: Upstream version with a hyphen?



 || On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:15:50 +0100
 || Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: 

	as> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:58:33PM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
	>> 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:

	as> It is technically allowed. If you try to do it, you will discover that
	as> it is a monumentally bad idea. The ambiguity makes it impossible for
	as> tools to behave intelligently.

        Witch problems? If this doesn't work so we should change the
        policy to warn about it.

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