Bug#886036: Improve changelog version parsing

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Felix,

> Thank you for following up. I have more patches. I am just not sure if the
> version parsing should really be duplicated in Lintian. Maybe there is a
> benefit to checks and balances, but at least some of the work might well go
> into 'dpkg/scripts/Dpkg/Version.pm', which we could then use in Lintian.

That sounds look a good idea although it might affect our backporting
policy? I'm afraid I can't speak to this, alas. Niels? :)


Regards,

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