On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 13:36 +0100, peter green wrote: > Common practice for downstreams (whether complete derivatives or end > users) is to version modified packages with a version number like > > 4.16.5-1+something1 > > Where "something" is the name of a project, the name of the person > performing the modification etc. > > Unfortunately with 4.16.5-1 of the kernel package such a version > number is no longer accepted with the error message "Invalid debian > linux version". It seems the cause of this was the following change. > > (?P<revision_other> > - [^-]+ > + [^-+]+ > ) > > Reverting this change allowed me to get a succesful control files > generation.
This was also reported in #898087
