Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy
Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> writes:
> Yeah, actually the change is breaking existing packages which used to
> work just fine (disclaimer: no, the ones I'm talking about aren't
> available in the official Debian pool).
> I understand the change but a timeframe for upgrading would be nice with
> warnings instead of erroring out.
I think this is more an objection to the dpkg change than to the Policy
change, correct? Policy doesn't govern out-of-archive packages, and I
think it's reasonable to just forbid version numbers starting with a
letter in the Debian archive rather than saying "should not" about
something that's syntactical.
My inclination is to second this, but I want to make sure that we've
answered your and Julien's objections first.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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