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

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:08:20AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > > Should debian-native *source* packages (.tar.gz + .dsc) be forbidden to   
> > > include a debian revision field, the problem would be detectable, and both
> > > lintian and katie (dinstall) could be made to flag such uploads as
> > > improper.
> 
> > What if upstream has a xx.xx-x version numbering? That's perfectly
> > legitimate.
> 
> Well then the debian package ends up with xx.xx-x-y versioning, in
> which case it is not a debian native package, and the policy proposal
> would require it to have a .diff.gz. A package with xx.xx-x versioning
> cannot be a debian native package; let me quote existing policy:
> 
>           The <upstream-version> may contain only alphanumerics and the
>           characters `.'  `+' `-' `:' (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon) and
>           should start with a digit.  If there is no <debian-revision> then
>           hyphens are not allowed; if there is no <epoch> then colons are
>           not allowed.

Then the policy proposal is moot and only needs to be enforced by dinstall.

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