On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:25:11AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 02:15 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > 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. > > > You're talking out of your anus. > > Upstream versions with hyphens work fine, only the last hyphen is > removed to extract the Debian revision. I've maintained a package with > one for ages and never tripped over a buggy tool. That's funny, I found half a dozen within half an hour last time I tried, asked a few long-timers, and got "Yes, it's known to be completely broken; don't do it". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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