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

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> My inclination is to second this, but I want to make sure that we've
>> answered your and Julien's objections first.
>
> And for complete reference, dpkg accepts those version in
> /var/lib/dpkg/status (so that dpkg still works for users with affected
> packages installed) but will not a accept to install a .deb with a bad
> version anymore.
>
> Cheers,

It does not allow them in available though breaking many systems that
have or in the past had a package with such a version available. At
least 4 people on irc have run into that problem that I saw already.

MfG
        Goswin