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 . + - : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, tilde) and *should* start with a digit. I don't see why this would forbid versions starting with an anlphanumeric character. Either dpkg should again install packages with such Version: fields, or the policy should be changed to reflect this new requirement. Thank you, Christian Hofstaedtler -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
