Bug#914072: python2.7: Version name 2.7.15+ is not accepted by some tools

Just ran into the same problem with Octoprint (http://octoprint.org) What is the reason to use this weird version format? cu Robert

Bug#914072: python2.7: Version name 2.7.15+ is not accepted by some tools

Package: python2.7 Version: 2.7.15-4 Severity: normal Recently, the version number of the Python 2.7 package appears to have been changed to "2.7.15+". I've experienced trouble with tools not accepting this as a valid version number. In particular, the popular tool "pipenv" relies on a library