Re: Colons in filenames/versions — OSX

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

Clytie Siddall wrote:
> I don't think I've run into this problem before with translation updates.
> Are colons approved for version numbers? Do they cause problems for other
> systems?

I'm afraid colons are a formal part of the official package version system 
in Debian. The part before the colon is called the "epoch" [1].

It does not really matter what file names you use (although the forward 
slash is very unfortunate as it is the directory separator in Linux, so it 
would be better to use something else).
But you should make sure that when you file bugs for your translation 
updates that the version number in the bug report contains the full 
version including epoch and colon.

Cheers,
FJP

P.S. Please also spend some time on the installation guide :-)

[1]http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version