Bug#315919: lintian: doesn't like ~ version number

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.9
Severity: normal

Hi,

beginning with sarge, the character ~ is valid in version numbers.
However, lintian reports an error when checking rageircd_2.0.1~pre2-1.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-zgserver
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.15-7        The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                   1.39-1        produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                       4.12-1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                    0.14.5-1      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian            0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  man-db                     2.4.2-23      The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]  5.8.7-3       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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