Re: Help with uscan

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2009-12-18, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+debian@mega-nerd.com> writes:
>
>> The upstream version number is 0.5.2-rc3 which is invalid for a
>> non-native package
>
> No, it's fine for the upstream version string to contain a hyphen. See
> Debian policy §5.6.12., where the hyphen is explicitly listed as one of
> the valid characters in the upstream version string component.

While that's true you shouldn't use a hyphen in this rc case, to ensure
that 0.5.2 > 0.5.2~rc3.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern