Re: Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy
Hi,
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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.
The next version of dpkg has --force-bad-version to work around this.
I'm not sure it's highly constructive to ask Guillem to revert the change
at this point since the impact on Debian is very low and a way has been
provided to install packages with bad versions.
Please reconsider. I think it's been well explained that version numbers
ought to start with a "number".
Cheers,
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