Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> I agree it could be intepreted so, but I see no benefits in allowing
> trailing '-'. After all, it's just confusing.
>
> By the way, using this interpretation for epoch too, a version ':1.2.3'
> would be also correct?
No, a version ':1.2.3' would still not be allowed, since there is a
colon but the text before it ("") is not a number, violating
This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer.
> ... so, I would rather amend the policy explicitly forbidding this
> special case.
Hmm.
I can imagine someone expecting "Depends: foo (<< 3.0-)" to be
accepted based on a naive view of versions in which they are mostly
compared lexically. Such a person would most likely (wrongly) expect
"foo (3.0)" to satisfy the dependency. So after thinking about it a
little, I agree --- it seems sensible to forbid such expressions to
avoid such pitfalls.
I can't imagine this rendering many existing non-buggy packages buggy,
since as this bug shows, the dpkg+apt combination doesn't seem to
handle version numbers with trailing '-' well yet anyway.
Thanks for your thoughtfulness.
Jonathan
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