Bug#85270: PROPOSAL] Forbiding debian-revision field for Debian-native source packages

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>]

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

    Ben> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 02:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh
    Ben> wrote:
    >> Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.0.0 Severity: wishlist
    Ben> What if upstream has a xx.xx-x version numbering? That's
    Ben> perfectly legitimate. 

No, it is not.r Or at least no it is not for Debian native packages.
For Debian native packages, section 4 of policy 3.5 forbids dash in
the upstream version.  For non-native packages this proposal does not
create a problem.