Re: Bug#620566: dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in contrast to policy
Hi,
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, chris h wrote:
> We (Grml) would like to switch back to short Version: strings for our
> kernel packages, as they already have the major "version number" in
> the package name, to allow co-installation of multiple versions, and
> there's no point in duplicating this info in the Version field.
> (Making the Version field relatively long and unreadable.)
"0" is very short. If you don't need the version at all, you don't need to
put a text string either.
Cheers,
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