On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:32:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > in r-cran-xtable, you eliminated the dash from the upstream version number. > This is an unnecessary precaution, that confuses dpkg when a third party > repository is used, typically cran2deb, as the original version number will > be seen as lower by dpkg even if the package is more recent.
I'm doing this systematically with all those CPAN packages which are featuring a dash in their version number. What would be your suggestion to replace the dash safely? > If you agree but are busy with something else, I can commit or upload a > corrected version, with an epoch. It is fine for me if you want to fix this package but there are more of them with the same problem and I wonder what might be the best general solution. Dirk, could you comment on this please? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org