Michael Prokop <[email protected]> writes: > Yeah, actually the change is breaking existing packages which used to > work just fine (disclaimer: no, the ones I'm talking about aren't > available in the official Debian pool).
> I understand the change but a timeframe for upgrading would be nice with > warnings instead of erroring out. I think this is more an objection to the dpkg change than to the Policy change, correct? Policy doesn't govern out-of-archive packages, and I think it's reasonable to just forbid version numbers starting with a letter in the Debian archive rather than saying "should not" about something that's syntactical. My inclination is to second this, but I want to make sure that we've answered your and Julien's objections first. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
