> Whoa. Are these legal? Are we sure that it's OK to have an > underscore *inside* a version, or to have more than one dash within a > version. By OK, I don't just mean "does dpkg choke on it". > > Perhaps this is OK, but we should be careful. If we get too liberal > with our allowable version strings, we may very well wind up painting > ourselves into the proverbial corner in the future. The more liberal > you get, the harder it is to parse things. Is > "foo-1.2.2-1.2.3alpha-1" Debian revision "-1" or Debian revision > "-1.2.3alpha-1"?
I think the ``one underscore, many dashes'' layout must be legal, since we already have some (libc6-pre2.1-doc_2.0.93-980414-1.deb, it had to be libc6, didn't it ;) I do agree that this is confusing and dangerous though, since it took three tries to get that example right. >From Debian Packaging Manual - chapter 5 - Version numbering: The debian-revision may contain only alphanumerics and the characters + and . (plus and full stop). ... dpkg will break the upstream-version and debian-revision apart at the last hyphen in the string. So foo_1.2.2-1.2.3alpha-1 is: package: foo upstream version: 1.2.2-1.2.3alpha debian revision: 1 Cheers, Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
