Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Carsten Hey wrote:
> upstream_version git1234 could be prefixed with epoch 0 and thus lead to
> the version number 0:git1234-debian_revision. Maybe this could be
Nah. Just drop the leading 'git'.
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> We have no upstream with such versions currently in Debian. I don't really
We have, mksh version numbers are mangled (see its watch file)
in a defined way. It uses a repacked source as .orig.tar.gz,
but since dpkg’s extraction mechanism doesn’t really care, for
a package with a normal tar.gz upstream this wouldn’t even matter.
bye,
//mirabilos
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