Lintian already does some special handling for the initial release (like checking the closure of an ITP bug), this check could happen there.
Greets Le dim. 12 mars 2023 à 19:06, IOhannes m zmölnig <umlae...@debian.org> a écrit : > >In future, please use a lower version number when packaging unreleased > >software. A version starting with an 8-digit date is almost guaranteed > >to compare greater than whatever upstream eventually chooses, > > > Could lintian warn when a date based version is used? > (I haven't checked how many upstreams use date-based versions intentionally > and fully aware of the consequences, but I think the problem appears mostly > if upstream does not do any formal releases at all, so the package maintainer > concocts some arbitrary version number on their own) > > > mfh.her.fsr > IOhannes >
