Re: ignoring upstream's version number?

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 07:13:43PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:

> What happens if a package maintainer ignores upstream's
> version number (either on purpose, or by accident, e.g.
> a typo)? Is this allowed?

It depends on the situation - for example, nis ignores the upstream
version number completely because it is an amalgam of three different
upstream releases but I expect that's not the sort of situation you are
thinking of.  Could you be more specific about the situation, perhaps?

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