Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 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.
It does allow them in available. Those people are confused
or affected by something else.
They might not know how to get rid of the warnings though (dpkg
--clear-avail).
Cheers,
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