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" tag means it's a repack of the upstream release to remove non-free files. The two conflict with each other. So it would be nice if Lintian would flag this as a probable error, and suggest using "1.2+dfsg-3" instead.
According to my quick counts, there are currently 73 source packages and 238 binary packages (at least for amd64) with such versions in sid (excluding duplicates due to multiple versions of the same package having ~dfsg in them). I also noticed there are a couple source packages with ~repack, which doesn't make sense for the same reasons, so maybe it could catch those too. (I guess this is sort of the flip side of #649277 -- that one deals with missing ~ where it should probably be used, this one deals with using ~ where it doesn't make sense.) -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
