Re: Debian kernel packaging no longer accepts typical downstream version numbering.
On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 13:36 +0100, peter green wrote:
> Common practice for downstreams (whether complete derivatives or end
> users) is to version modified packages with a version number like
>
> 4.16.5-1+something1
>
> Where "something" is the name of a project, the name of the person
> performing the modification etc.
>
> Unfortunately with 4.16.5-1 of the kernel package such a version
> number is no longer accepted with the error message "Invalid debian
> linux version". It seems the cause of this was the following change.
>
> (?P<revision_other>
> - [^-]+
> + [^-+]+
> )
>
> Reverting this change allowed me to get a succesful control files
> generation.
This was also reported in #898087
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