Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sat 26 Sep 2020 at 02:48pm +02, Christian Kastner wrote:

> with regards to colons in version numbers, 5.6.12 states on the "epoch"
> fragment:
>
> "If it is omitted then the upstream_version may not contain any colons."
>
>
> However, this seems superfluous, as it states on the "upstream_version"
> fragment:
>
> "The upstream_version may contain only alphanumerics and the characters
> . + - ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, tilde)"

Technically superfluous but I think helpful to the reader, so I suggest
we just keep it.

-- 
Sean Whitton