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Re: Upstream version with a hyphen?



On 20040625T060516+0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:02:03PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:52:27AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > 3.4-1
> > > 
> > > Is this a Debian version or an upstream version?
> > 
> > Debian. Policy 5.6.11 says "If there is no debian_revision then hyphens
> > are not allowed".
> > 
> > Since it would not be a legal upstream version, it must be a Debian
> > version.
> 
> Yeah, unfortunately it's the upstream version of foo 3.4-1-2.
> 
> That's your ambiguity.

That ambiguity only exists when the upstream version is presented
without contextual information.

-- 
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer 

http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian

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