Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> (2015-07-19): > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > Policy §5.6.12 reads: “The <upstream_version> may contain only alphanumerics > and the characters ‘.’ ‘+’ ‘-’ ‘:’ ‘~’ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, > tilde) and should start with a digit. […] if there is no <epoch> then colons > are not allowed.” > > But in practice: > > 1) There's been never a package with a colon in upstream_version in the > archive. > > 2) A colon in upstream_version implies a colon in the filename. Some > software might not tolerate such filenames; see bug #645895 for discussion. > > 3) dpkg in unstable won't even let you build a package with such version: > > $ head -n1 debian/changelog > adequate (1:1:1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > $ dpkg-buildpackage -S > […] > dpkg-genchanges -S >../adequate_1:1_source.changes > dpkg-genchanges: error: invalid filename adequate_1:1.dsc > dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 255 > > > Therefore, I'd like to propose to disallow colons in upstream_version.
This looks to me like a reasonable thing to do. Mraw, KiBi.
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