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

[Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>]

* Bill Allombert [2011-04-04 12:03 +0200]:
> Unfortunately, we cannot force upstream to use a version that start by a digit,
> We would need to document a mangling process for upstream version that start
> by a letter.

Quoting policy:
| epoch
|
| This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be
| omitted, in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the
| upstream_version may not contain any colons.

upstream_version git1234 could be prefixed with epoch 0 and thus lead to
the version number 0:git1234-debian_revision.  Maybe this could be
mentioned in the policy.

Regards
Carsten