On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Chris Lamb wrote: > Thanks. Looks like this was introduced in: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/2d29518cfa51025ceaa296b6e8f622f78a6eb5f6
(adding .diff makes that readable in lynx) Erk, this is very Perl-y… I’m sorry to say I don’t know what it does. The string after the last hyphen-minus is the maintainer version, but it’s almost free-form, except for not containing a hyphen-minus itself; there are some assigned meanings (N.N means NMU, ~bpoN+N means backport, etc.) but it can get convoluted: something like… foo (= 1:2.3-4.5~deb6u7ubuntu8tarent9~ppa1404+1) … is conceivable. bye, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” (#nosec) ‣‣‣ Please let MySQL and MariaDB finally die!
