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Re: Upstream version with a hyphen?



On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 05:51 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:25:11AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 02:15 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > 
> > > It is technically allowed. If you try to do it, you will discover that
> > > it is a monumentally bad idea. The ambiguity makes it impossible for
> > > tools to behave intelligently.
> > > 
> > You're talking out of your anus.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> That's funny, I found half a dozen within half an hour last time I
> tried, asked a few long-timers, and got "Yes, it's known to be
> completely broken; don't do it".
> 
Really?  What were they?  Bug numbers?  Examples?

Right now, you're just spouting FUD.

Scott
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Have you ever, ever felt like this?
Had strange things happen?  Are you going round the twist?

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