On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:02:19PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:27:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> (The list of permitted characters in the policy is up to date AFAIK, >>> except that "~" is missing.) >> Not quite, policy says ":" is allowed in upstream version, but the >> scripts on ftp-master.debian.org (dak?) will reject it. I >> tried. See >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00250.html . It it >> not known to me that the situation has changed since then. > Colons are only allowed if there is an epoch (policy 5.6.12). In > your mailman upload of that message, there is no epoch but there is > a colon, so it is an illegal version number. No, it had an explicit zero epoch, so it _was_ valid according to the rules in policy. What dak didn't like was that the .changes file had a colon in its name. As soon as you have a colon in the upstream version, the .changes file has a colon in its name, and dak rejects it. Whatever the epoch is. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]