>[2] http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=vpcs_0.5b0-1 In that special case, I'd even say your versioning "mistake" is good because upstream's ~ notation is a mess. That char is reserved for Debian ;) (yes, that's false and not so humble ;))! Why not keep your version numbering as it is and use version mangling in the watch file instead to match.upstream? -nik