On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:47:39PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:00:43AM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: > > > I just wanted to confirm my recollection that now that stable has been released > > > with support for ~ in package versions in dpkg and apt, we can now use ~ in > > > package versions for upload to the Debian archive. > > > > > Is this right, or have I misremembered? > > > > It was that such package versions could not be used *before* sarge released, > > not that they would be supported immediately *after* the release; the change > > has not yet been made to make this possible for etch. > > Namely, as you told me on irc, that dak uses ~ internally as a separator; this > obviously conflicts with dpkg's use of it in versions. > > So, to those wondering, this is more than just removing some simple > forbiddince check. It also requires not just completely allowing it; ~ can > only be allowed for uploads into testing and unstable. Doesn't that also make backporting packages to Sarge (if they have ~ in the version) a bit more dicey? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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