Control: reassign -1 debian-policy Hi!
On Wed, 2024-08-28 at 18:11:23 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev,debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: po...@debian.org > Emilio and me noticed that policy and dpkg have subtly different ideas > of what is a version. While man deb-version says > > | The upstream-version may contain only alphanumerics (“A-Za-z0-9”) > | and the characters . + - : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, tilde) > | and should start with a digit. > > Debian policy section 5.6.1 says > > | The upstream_version must contain only alphanumerics 6 and the > | characters . + - ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, tilde) and should start > | with a digit. If there is no debian_revision then hyphens are not > | allowed. > > Technically speaking, it is fine for policy to forbid things that dpkg > allows. Other distributions based on dpkg may use a different policy and > allow using multiple colons. Still is is an odd aspect and may cause > confusion. Is this difference intentional? If yes, would it make sense > to add a footnote to policy hinting that it is more restrictive than > dpkg? I also checked packages in unstable and found no packages with a > version containing two colons (i.e. all packages are policy-compliant in > this regard). Yes, this is the result of both #792853 and #971023. Reassigning to Debian Policy in case someone wants to clarify it there. Thanks, Guillem
