Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:27:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Keep in mind that dpkg does not check for the validity of version
> numbers. "_" is in fact forbidden, and I believe there is a check in
> dak that enforces that.
> (The list of permitted characters in the policy is up to date AFAIK,
> except that "~" is missing.)
Not quite, policy says ":" is allowed in upstream version, but the
scripts on ftp-master.debian.org (dak?) will reject it. I tried. See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00250.html . It it not
known to me that the situation has changed since then.
--
Lionel
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