what if the upstream version contains hyphens?

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

I intend to package gnuplotfortran whose upstream is available at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplotfortran .The upstream released 
sources whose version is 0.2.2-1 .

My questions are

1) What would be the corresponding Debian version? Should it be 
0.2.2-1-1 or should i pretend the upstream's version is 0.2.2.1 and name 
the debian version to be 0.2.2.1-1?

2) should I ask the upstream to restrict their versioning scheme to dots 
and leave of hyphens to package maintainers? Will this raise problems 
for the maintainer (say from other Linux distributions' maintainers?)

3) Are there any other packages which have/had this problem previously? 
How is/was it solved?

The maint-guide currently is silent about this problem. But if there is 
some other documentation available which helps in this regard, I will be 
happy to read it.

thanks
raju

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
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