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.
Background: I use the version number as a directory name in the autobuilder. Unfortunately, make doesn't cope with unquoted colons `:' (epochs!) in target file names, and some packages use something like PWD=`pwd` and use that in rules. If pwd contains a `:', the build breaks (happened with current gawk). There are other characters which must be avoided in the path where you build the packages (like `%'). I want to work around it by replacing the colon with an underscore, or if this is a valid character of a version string, with a comma. If you think that packages should cope with arbitrary parent paths at build time, I would support such a proposal, but I have no time to work the details out myself. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
