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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

Hello,

I am reassigning this bug to dpkg for the following reason:

1) No rationale are provided for the change.

2) This change breaks actual packages. Even if no such package exist in squeeze, users
could still want to install older or unofficial packages, or created with dpkg-repack.

3) As a matter of policy, we should not encourage developpers to upload packages that
conflict with Debian policy and then ask for a policy change to match before a consensus
for the change is established, since this creates an unwanted pressure on the policy 
process by breaking the status quo principle.

4) No consensus exist on the policy change.

5) Even this policy change was accepted, it would still be a bug in dpkg to reject
packages that were made before this policy was implemented.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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