Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> We have no upstream with such versions currently in Debian. I don't
> really see the point of your objection. There's no supplementary work
> involved in Debian.
> I doubt we'll ever have to mangle the version name to satisfy the
> constraint but even if we have to, it's trivial to add a leading 0.
We could recommend that explicitly if it would help. It would be my
recommendation even without the restriction on version numbers, since
alphanumerics would sort after any numbers, so you'd need an epoch
otherwise if upstream ever switched to more conventional versions.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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