On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 12:59:43PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Bill Allombert [2011-04-04 12:03 +0200]: > > Unfortunately, we cannot force upstream to use a version that start by a > > digit, > > We would need to document a mangling process for upstream version that start > > by a letter. > > Quoting policy: > | epoch > | > | This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be > | omitted, in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the > | upstream_version may not contain any colons. > > upstream_version git1234 could be prefixed with epoch 0 and thus lead to > the version number 0:git1234-debian_revision. Maybe this could be > mentioned in the policy.
This would not be compatible with the proposed change, because epoch is not part of upstream_version, so upstream_version would still start with a letter. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
