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

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 debian-policy

Felix Lechner writes ("Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages [and 1 more messages]"):
> 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?
...
> Is it permitted now? Policy 3.2.1 states "hyphen (-) cannot be used in
> native package versions."

I wasn't aware of that.  I wonder when that was added.
As stated, it is false.

> > 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.

Thank you.

ISTM that some people (like me) feel this packaging practice is vastly
underused and some people (like Guillem) feel it should be abolished.

Perhaps we can go back to the previous uneasy stalemate where we all
lived with it being (merely) warned about, and contested when it is
discussed on mailing lists.

Ian.

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