Sergio Durigan Junior <[email protected]> writes: > On Monday, December 28 2015, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > > also the - is a good separator. > > Heh, sometimes the solution is so obvious... For some reason (so > obscure that I cannot remember), I thought that '-' could not be used in > this specific case.
It is a valid character in the upstream version string, and when upstream does in fact use that character it should of course be preserved in the Debian package version string. When *adding* a suffix that's not part of the upstream version string, though, I maintain that “-” is not a good separator to use. Conventionally, “+” is a soft indication that the suffix is not part of the upstream version string; and that's why I still advocate using “+ds1” for your suffix. (And correcting any bugs in the upstream build system which trip on that.) -- \ “Even if the voices in my head are not real, they have pretty | `\ good ideas.” —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney
