Hi, Quoting Paul Wise (2016-02-12 02:02:53) > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > A bit OT: the old-style-config-script lintian description links to a 404 page > > on sources.debian.net. Maybe this link should be updated? Is there a way to > > create a link to a file on sources.debian.net where, if the version doesn't > > exist anymore, it will automatically fall-back to the next highest version? > > You can use 'latest' or any suite (unstable/testing/etc) or codename > (sid/jessie/etc) in the version part of the URL to avoid broken links. I was about to ask what would happen if somebody would introduce a native Debian package with upstream_version "jessie". As far as I see, this would be legal according to policy because §5.6.12 only says that the upstream_version part "should" start with a digit. Though when I then tried to create such a package, dpkg refused to cooperate: dpkg-buildpackage: warning: debian/changelog(l1): version '0:jessie' is invalid: version number does not start with digit LINE: name (0:jessie) unstable; urgency=medium According to the following regex over my Sources there seems to be no source package with an upstream_version part that does not start with a digit: sed -ne 's/^Version: \([0-9]\+:\)\?[^0-9]//p' So maybe policy should be adjusted to reflect reality? cheers, josch
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