Hi Ben,

Currently, this is not a problem for vanilla OVS. Our team faced this problem 
as we added extensions to OVS and wanted to distinguish our debian packages and 
running ovs-vswitchd from vanilla 2.5.0 version.
We added a postfix string including a hyphen to the upstream version and that 
broke installation of datapath-dkms package.

Best regards,
Zoltán


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 4:41 PM
To: Zoltán Balogh
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian : upstream_version fix

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:10:35PM +0000, Zoltán Balogh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The Debian Policy Manual 
> (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version) 
> says that the upstream_version may contain only alphanumerics and the 
> characters . + - : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, tilde) and should start 
> with a digit.
> 
> Currently, the upstream_version is defined in the debian/rules file:
> 
> DEB_UPSTREAM_VERSION=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne 
> 's,^Version: ([0-9]:)*([^-]+).*,\2,p')
> 
> The version number is taken from the dpkg-parsechangelog printout then the 
> first part of the version number which does not contain hyphen is filtered 
> out with sed. However the Debian Policy Manual says that hyphen is allowed in 
> the upstream_version. e.g. in case of 3:2.5.0-myOvs-12-1 the upstream_version 
> should be 2.5.0-myOvs-12, but current implementation will filter it to 2.5.0.
> I think the following patch solves this problem.

I don't understand the problem.  Currently the Debian version number is 
2.5.90-1.  This filters it to 2.5.90.  What's the problem?

We've never used a version number like 3:2.5.0-myOvs-12-1, where does that come 
from?
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