Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 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.
Colons are only allowed if there is an epoch (policy 5.6.12). In your
mailman upload of that message, there is no epoch but there is a colon, so
it is an illegal version number.
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Felipe Sateler
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