On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:43:21AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:50:39PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > policy uses alphanumeric to define version numbers. Is this only a-zA-Z0-9, > > or does this include the "_"? As the "_" is used as a seperator in Debian > > package file names, this would be perverse, but I would like to stay on the > > safe side. > > No, only a-zA-Z0-9 should be allowed. I have no idea whether this is > enforced anywhere, but this should probably be spelled out in policy.
As well as [.-+], which are all allowed in version and package name. IMO, Marcus, you should stick with ',' as your ":" replacement character. Unless you feel like filing bugs on packages that fail with ":", which should be ok, since it wouldn't be too outlandish to expect packages to build in an evironment with sane path names (e.g. if I build all of my packages in /usr/src/debian:pkgs/). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'