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Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy



* Russ Allbery [Sun Apr 03, 2011 at 08:12:03PM -0700]:
> 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?

ACK

> 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.

ACK

> My inclination is to second this, but I want to make sure that we've
> answered your and Julien's objections first.

Thanks!

regards,
-mika-

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