Re: [Proposal] Simplify upstream version string rule
Benjamin Mesing <bensmail@gmx.net> writes:
> I think the simplification would be worth the effort to fix those 518
> packages (where many share a common source package). If you disagree, at
> least the colon could be totally forbidden.
I don't have any objections to forbidding the colon (although also no
strong support for the idea either). I do object to forbidding the
hyphen; it's not uncommon for upstream packages to include a hyphen in the
version, and I really prefer to keep the upstream version the same as
upstream whenever possible. There are other characters we can't handle,
but they're not as common as the hyphen.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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