On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Matthias Klose wrote: > The ~ character can be used in package versions, so that x.y~pre1-1 << > x.y-1, but it's currently not used and lintian complains about > it. nevertheless it seems to work. can this notation already be used > for packages, which could be part of sarge? what are the required > versions of dpkg and apt to use this notation?
It'd be best to wait until a version of dpkg and apt that handle ~ hit stable. Which means no package in sarge can use ~ in the version. Please check their changelogs for the versions that added support.
