Re: Dash and dot in package version

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Ludovico Cavedon wrote:

> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ludovico Cavedon
> <ludovico.cavedon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On lördagen den 16 maj 2009, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>> When adding a dfsg or whatever suffix, always use ~ to avoid problems
>>>> like the one Jan pointed out. So your version would be 2.2~rc3~dfsg1,
>>>> and then you bump to 2.2~rc3+hg123~dfsg1.
>>>
>>> However, that won't work if you have already uploaded e.g. version 1.2-3
>>> of a package, and then somebody files a bug that the tarball contains
>>> some non-free file, and you'd like to upload 1.2~dfsg-1 to fix it
>>> without waiting for a new upstream release.
>>
>> Yes, I agree with that (and also with
>> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dfsg-version-with-period.html). dfsg it
>> is something that comes *after* the upstream release.
> 
> I mean: repackaging for dfsg compliance is something that comes after
> the upstream release, so "+dfsg1" is the right one.
> 
> My problem is how to deal with "hg375" in combination with "+dfsg1".

Of course, you can always do 2.2~rc3+dfsg1+hg375 (a bit uglier, but works).

> 
> Thanks,
> Ludovivo

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Felipe Sateler