> I have a question about how to proceed. I am considering packaging a > program, and it uses a nonstandard versioning scheme. It ends up > looking like <package>-DR7.10. dh_make doesn't parse this - this in > itself trivial to work around, but it made me stop and wonder if this > is because the versioning scheme is something that shouldn't be used, or > if it was because of a shortcoming in dh_make. I tend to think the > latter, and think that a bug should be filed, but I'm asking because I > wanted to make sure I didn't just miss something here.
You might want to check policy before filing a bug: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-versions.html As I read it, the relevant section is: The upstream_version may contain only alphanumerics[13] and the characters . + - : (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon) and should start with a digit. The key being, "start with a digit", which of course yours doesn't. I don't think you can expect dh_make to support version schemes that violate policy. I'm not sure what exactly you should do with your version, though. I'll let the real experts answer that one. :-) KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Personal Homepage: http://www.skyjammer.com/~pronovic/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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