On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:25:11AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: [snip] > Upstream versions with hyphens work fine, only the last hyphen is > removed to extract the Debian revision. I've maintained a package with > one for ages and never tripped over a buggy tool. > While we're at it, what is a good way of extracting the upstream version out of a version string that contains the Debian revision? Andrew