Bug#671084: lintian: warn against ~dfsg versions

2012-07-11 Thread Niels Thykier
tags 671084 + wontfix thanks On 2012-05-01 21:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] > > I'm not sure Lintian should take a stand on this, since I know this > versioning scheme was intentional and done with thought for the > consequences in at least some cases. > Okay, I will take the liberty of taggi

Bug#671084: lintian: warn against ~dfsg versions

2012-05-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Schepler writes: > I've recently noticed a few instances of packages being assigned > versions of something like 1.2~dfsg-3. That doesn't make sense: the ~ > character is supposed to be for marking pre-release version tags from > upstream like ~beta2, while the "dfsg" tag means it's a rep

Bug#671084: lintian: warn against ~dfsg versions

2012-05-01 Thread Daniel Schepler
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: wishlist I've recently noticed a few instances of packages being assigned versions of something like 1.2~dfsg-3. That doesn't make sense: the ~ character is supposed to be for marking pre-release version tags from upstream like ~beta2, while the "dfsg" ta