On 26-Sep-2001 Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Lintian gives errors when looking at a package with letters at the > beginning of the upstream version number. Ch. 4 of policy indicates > that the upstream version can't begin with a letter. However, it > doesn't really indicate what should be done in case an upstream version > does begin with letters. In the case of the latest iputils package, it > is ss010824. Should I just drop the letters from the version number, or > is there some other preferred way of making it comply with policy. > > It might be worth it to add some text to policy clarifying this issue. >
A problem here is knowing what is the next version. Is it st010824? maybe ss010825? I think a common solution is to put '0.' or '1.' in front of the upstream.