On 18 November 2009 at 10:27, Andreas Tille wrote: | 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?
To not do it -- Keep the CRAN version number as is with dashes or whatever it contains, and just append the Debian revision. That is what I (and I think most others) now do. You may need to wait for a new 'bigger' upstream number (which in some cases 'never' comes) or use an epoch (which I haven't done yet as I don't like using epochs unless I really must). | > 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? Well, I think I did :-) by replying to r-sig-debian with what Charles seems to have forwarded. The best general solution is to alter the process and to no longer do do a substitution of dashes with dots. If we had a Debian R Policy, this would be in it. Hth, Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org