Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Ian,

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 4:58 AM Ian Jackson
<ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> It works today.  The only problem is the lintian warning.

Doesn't policy stand in the way too?

> I perceive this as
> part of a campaign to abolish one of my workflows.  I am scared that
> in the future an attempt may be made to actually forbid this practice.

Is it permitted now? Policy 3.2.1 states "hyphen (-) cannot be used in
native package versions."

> I think that Previously lintian reported this situation as
> "hyphen-in-native-debian-changelog-version"
> which was a warning.

Please don't be scared. I am happy to downgrade the tag to a warning
if we can reach a consensus among Lintian and Dpkg maintainers.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner