Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Policy §5.6.12 reads: “The <upstream_version> may contain only
alphanumerics and the characters ‘.’ ‘+’ ‘-’ ‘:’ ‘~’ (full stop, plus,
hyphen, colon, tilde) and should start with a digit. […] if there is no
<epoch> then colons are not allowed.”
But in practice:
1) There's been never a package with a colon in upstream_version in the
archive.
2) A colon in upstream_version implies a colon in the filename. Some
software might not tolerate such filenames; see bug #645895 for
discussion.
3) dpkg in unstable won't even let you build a package with such
version:
$ head -n1 debian/changelog
adequate (1:1:1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
$ dpkg-buildpackage -S
[…]
dpkg-genchanges -S >../adequate_1:1_source.changes
dpkg-genchanges: error: invalid filename adequate_1:1.dsc
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 255
Therefore, I'd like to propose to disallow colons in upstream_version.
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Jakub Wilk
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