On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 03:17:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > This looks like an arbitrary restriction. There is no rationale given for > that > it is "confusing". If you read 5.6.12 replacing "piece of software was written specifically to be a Debian package" with "native package" you will see that native packages with a dash in the version are forbidden and non-native packages are assumed to have a debian_revision part. Isn't that enough?
> So here's a rationale why the *new* behaviour is "confusing". For packaging > reasons you often split up packages in separate source packages. However this > software is still upstream software, and seeing differing versioning schemas > for > a package built from python3.3 and python3.3-stdlib-extensions would be > unexpected and confusing. How is this relevant here? -- WBR, wRAR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
