Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-11-09 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 + pending Hello, On Mon 09 Nov 2020 at 12:12PM +01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 01:01:28PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst >> index 0d7a3e9..a21a510 100644 >> --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rs

Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-11-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 12:12:18PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 01:01:28PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > > index 0d7a3e9..a21a510 100644 > > --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > > +++ b/policy/ch-cont

Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-11-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 01:01:28PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > diff --git a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > index 0d7a3e9..a21a510 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-controlfields.rst > @@ -552,8 +552,7 @@ The three components here are: > > `

Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-11-07 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 + patch Hello, On Wed 30 Sep 2020 at 11:23AM +02, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2020-09-29 02:22, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Technically superfluous but I think helpful to the reader, so I suggest >> we just keep it. > > To be honest, as a reader, I found that to be the opposite. The

Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-09-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 26 Sep 2020 at 02:48pm +02, Christian Kastner wrote: > with regards to colons in version numbers, 5.6.12 states on the "epoch" > fragment: > > "If it is omitted then the upstream_version may not contain any colons." > > > However, this seems superfluous, as it states on the "upstrea

Bug#971023: Version field (5.6.12) and colons

2020-09-26 Thread Christian Kastner
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.0.3 Severity: minor Hi, with regards to colons in version numbers, 5.6.12 states on the "epoch" fragment: "If it is omitted then the upstream_version may not contain any colons." However, this seems superfluous, as it states on the "upstream_version" fragmen