Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> +       <p>
> +         The upstream version number must not include a non-linear
> +         revision ID or hash, since it cannot help in ordering
> +         versions and it tends to result in very long version
> +         numbers and filenames.  This information may be recorded
> +         in the changelog instead.
> +       </p>

I don't think it's Policy's place to tell people that they can't use
hashes because they *might* result in long version numbers.  They usually
don't.

If we have a version number length restriction, or an overall filename
length restriction, we should just say that, and point out that using
hashes may make it hard to meet the restriction.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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