On Jun 23, Philip Hands decided to present us with:
>
>   1:2.0.8-0pre1.1
>   1:2.0.8-0pre1.2
>   1:2.0.8-0pre1.2.1 (NMU)
>   1:2.0.8-1
> 
> etc.

No, that's very bad, because it implies that the upstream source
is the same and the only difference is in the Debian packaging.
Wrong.

> I think we need a policy statement saying that packages
> uploaded with kludgey version numbers (that are clearly there
> to avoid the introduction of an epoch) will not be allowed
> into the archive.

Agredd.

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