Re: Use of ~ in package versions
* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2004-01-25 10:52]:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:04:16AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > The ~ character can be used in package versions, so that x.y~pre1-1 <<
> > x.y-1, but it's currently not used and lintian complains about
> > it. nevertheless it seems to work. can this notation already be used
> > for packages, which could be part of sarge?
>
> When this was being added I believe it was agreed that we had to wait
> until after sarge before using it. If you use it in sarge you'll break
katie will reject such uploads.
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Martin Michlmayr
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