* Russ Allbery [Sun Apr 03, 2011 at 08:12:03PM -0700]: > Michael Prokop <m...@debian.org> writes:
> > Yeah, actually the change is breaking existing packages which used to > > work just fine (disclaimer: no, the ones I'm talking about aren't > > available in the official Debian pool). > > I understand the change but a timeframe for upgrading would be nice with > > warnings instead of erroring out. > I think this is more an objection to the dpkg change than to the Policy > change, correct? ACK > Policy doesn't govern out-of-archive packages, and I think it's > reasonable to just forbid version numbers starting with a letter > in the Debian archive rather than saying "should not" about > something that's syntactical. ACK > My inclination is to second this, but I want to make sure that we've > answered your and Julien's objections first. Thanks! regards, -mika-
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