Package: lintian Version: 2.106.1 X-Debbugs-Cc: dtorra...@piedmont.edu
In R, unlike Debian, hyphens (-) and dots (.) are sorted equally for comparing version numbers, and it is standard practice upstream for hyphens to be used between the minor and patch numbers, e.g., x.y-z. The existence of the pedantic Lintian warning hyphen-in-upstream-part-of-debian-changelog-version could imply that these hyphens should be changed to dots, e.g., by using a uversionmangle option in d/watch. However, doing this can cause dependency issues in R packages. See, for example, [1,2,3]. Would it be possible to avoid emitting this warning for R packages? Note that most R source packages can be identified easily because they generally start with "r-". [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2018/06/msg00069.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2021/09/msg00135.html [3] https://bugs.debian.org/953225
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