On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:09:57PM -0700, TheSin wrote: > since when can't we use _ [in Version:] and why?
Since always. Packaging Manual section 5.2 has said it since CVS v1.1 of that file, and the underlying Debian docs have never not said it in my memory. It would maybe break Services::version_cmp(), and it would give confusing .deb filenames (where _ is used to delimit the fields). dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel