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



Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> The remaining open question is how to deal with historical packages.  I
> personally would be happier if "dpkg" and higher-level tools did not
> introduce incompatibilities with the historical format when it's easy
> not to, since being able to install old packages to "bisect" an old bug
> is very useful.  But I realize I might be in the minority.

I think this is an interesting conversation, but so far as I can tell it's
not particularly relevant to Policy.  There are no such packages with
those version numbers currently in Debian, so Policy can simply say that
there will never be in the future either and be done with it.

There is a remaining issue for out-of-archive packages, but I think that's
between maintainers of those packages and the dpkg maintainers about what
dpkg may support beyond what Debian requires.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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