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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 12:59:43PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> * 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.

This would not be compatible with the proposed change, because epoch is not
part of upstream_version, so upstream_version would still start with a letter.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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