Daniel Schepler <dschep...@gmail.com> 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 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.
The reason I have heard for some maintainers intentionally doing this is that they wanted to ensure that a package built from the canonical upstream source would get a version that would sort later than the version of the DFSG-stripped package. This could be important if, say, the package was made DFSG-free by removing functionality; if someone built a local version of the package with that functionality restored, they may want the Debian version to upgrade cleanly to their local version. 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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
