Hi,
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, chris h wrote:
> We (Grml) would like to switch back to short Version: strings for our
> kernel packages, as they already have the major "version number" in
> the package name, to allow co-installation of multiple versions, and
> there's no point in duplicating this info i
Has there been any progress on this bug?
We (Grml) would like to switch back to short Version: strings for our
kernel packages, as they already have the major "version number" in
the package name, to allow co-installation of multiple versions, and
there's no point in duplicating this info in the Ve
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> retitle 620566 dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in
Bug #620566 [dpkg] Sync upstream version format with what dpkg accepts now
Changed Bug title to 'dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in'
from 'Sync upstream ver
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Please reconsider. I think it's been well explained that version numbers
> ought to start with a "number".
Where? Also, f is a number around here.
Example breakage includes the bitlbee bzr snapshots, which many stable
users of bitlbee were probably using.
--
see shy jo
Hi,
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 2) This change breaks actual packages. Even if no such package exist in
> squeeze, users
> could still want to install older or unofficial packages, or created with
> dpkg-repack.
The next version of dpkg has --force-bad-version to work around th
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> reassign 620566 debian-policy
Bug #620566 [dpkg] dpkg: "version number does not start with digit" is in
contrast to policy
Bug reassigned from package 'dpkg' to 'debian-policy'.
Bug No longer marked as found in versions dpkg/1.16.0.
> severity 62
reassign 620566 debian-policy
severity 620566 normal
tags 620566 patch
retitle 620566 Sync upstream version format with what dpkg accepts now
thanks
On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 21:28:08 +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.16.0
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
> dpkg 1.16.
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.0
Severity: important
Tags: sid
Hi,
dpkg 1.16.0 appears to refuse to install packages which have a Version:
field which does not start with a digit.
The Debian policy currently states:
The upstream_version may contain only alphanumerics[33] and the
characters . + - :
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