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

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