Bug#941395: lintian: tries to do math on package version strings: Argument "1exp1" isn't numeric in addition (+)
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Thanks. Looks like this was introduced in:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/2d29518cfa51025ceaa296b6e8f622f78a6eb5f6
(adding .diff makes that readable in lynx)
Erk, this is very Perl-y… I’m sorry to say I don’t know what it does.
The string after the last hyphen-minus is the maintainer version, but
it’s almost free-form, except for not containing a hyphen-minus itself;
there are some assigned meanings (N.N means NMU, ~bpoN+N means backport,
etc.) but it can get convoluted: something like…
foo (= 1:2.3-4.5~deb6u7ubuntu8tarent9~ppa1404+1)
… is conceivable.
bye,
//mirabilos
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