Re: upstream_version not starting with a digit (was: Re: How to change config script for multiarch?)

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>, 2016-02-12, 13:41:
> 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?

Yes. #620566 used to be a policy bug about it, but then someone 
unhelpfully reassigned it to dpkg...

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Jakub Wilk