Re: dak now supports ~ in version numbers

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006, sean finney wrote:
> > > Thanks to the work of our DPL Anthony "aj" Towns (and all the other
> > > people who have worked on this without my knowledge), I am happy to
> > > announce that dak, our archive management software, finally supports
> > > the use of the tilde ('~') in version numbers.
> > 
> > Should we really start using this feature even though it violates
> > section 5.6.12 of the Policy?
> 
> i'd say we should update the policy document.

Policy documents reality, so if now the reality is that ~ is supported and
its use is encouraged, then yes, policy should be changed ASAP.

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