Consider my proposal that ~1 > ~2 dropped!
I agree that it is enough that
alpha < beta < gamma < pre < release
with the usual alphabetical ordering together with ~ as an escape
hatch is good enough for nearly every situation.
There is the question as to whether epochs should be extended to al
Having just re-read the section in the packaging manual, I note that
dpkg does not chop version numbers by '.' but into non-numeric and
numeric components [/usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ch-versions.html].
On 22 Jun 1998 Yann Dirson wrote:
> Proposals modifying current version-numbering scheme:
> =
This mail message started out as a response to Marcus Brinkmann's
comment on the policy list:
> I think that [the multiple maintainer] issue can't be resolved
> properly ("we are stuck") without further input from all the other
> developers not participating on debian-policy.
I'm hardly a partici
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