Re: Uploaded debian-keyring 1998.07.04 (source all) to master
apharris@burrito.onshore.com (Adam P. Harris) writes:
> Are you saying you think the sp package currently violates policy or
> document best practices? Because it does not.
>
> BTW, the sp package has names like 'sp_1.3-1.1-6_i386.deb'. This is
> because sp is built form jade sources (v 1.1) but has it's own version
> number (v 1.3). Currently, as per policy etc, this is considered
> upstream version number 1.3-1.1 and debian revision 6. All is well in
> my world, but I can see why people would get confused.
Right. dpkg (and policy) only state that the debian revision is
whatever comes after the final dash if there is one. What you couln't
have, then, is a debian-only pacakge with a dash in the version.
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