Re: Colons in upstream version.

To: dark@xs4all.nl (Richard Braakman), debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Colons in upstream version.
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:29:59 +1100
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In-reply-to: <20031101005148.GA9469@cs78143044.pp.htv.fi>

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> This just means that colons are _sometimes_ allowed in the upstream
> version (namely when the package already has an epoch for some reason).

No they're always allowed.  You just have to prefix them with an epoch.
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