On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 03:50:39PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Hi, > > policy uses alphanumeric to define version numbers. Is this only a-zA-Z0-9, > or does this include the "_"? As the "_" is used as a seperator in Debian > package file names, this would be perverse, but I would like to stay on the > safe side.
No, only a-zA-Z0-9 should be allowed. I have no idea whether this is enforced anywhere, but this should probably be spelled out in policy. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/