Package: rpm
Version: 4.11.1-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
Upgrading rpm from 4.11.1-3 to 4.11.2-1 in a apt-get dist-upgrade run

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Trying to build zfsonlinux kernel modules for new linux-kernels. Building
this modules for quite some time no. Failing to build startet about kernel
version 3.13-3. It took me some time to realise that rpm is the culprit.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
Converting rpm packages to deb packages failed with the error message 
Invalid version (double separator '-') 

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Build deb packages ;) - maybe a longer grace period necessary until packages
follow the new, valid naming convention



First: as a longtime Debian User I would like to thank You for Your work. I
love the Debian package system and try to stay away from rpm since way back,
but it is still a major technology for deploying applications and Your work
makes it easy to keep track on this mess.

To my point:

the latest release of the rpm toolchain (4.11.2-1) broke my ability to
compile the zfsonlinux sources with the "make deb" command. I understand,
that the "Bump standards to 3.9.5" now makes rpm mark the dependency as
"Invalid version (double separator '-')" because of package names.

Since rpm just enforces the new rules I fail to name it a bug, but the
upstream discussion at Red Hat make me ask You about the all new upstream
version 4.11.2-2.

see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1065563

So I opend this bug report 

Thanks in advance.

MP

P.S. I am a newbie at reporting bugs. Please to hesitate to bump me in
another direction if this report "barks up the wrong tree"

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-3.slh.2-aptosid-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rpm depends on:
ii  debugedit     4.11.1-3
ii  libc6         2.18-3
ii  libelf1       0.157-3
ii  libpopt0      1.16-8
ii  librpm3       4.11.1-3
pn  librpmbuild3  <none>
pn  librpmio3     <none>
pn  librpmsign1   <none>
ii  perl          5.18.2-2
ii  rpm-common    4.11.1-3
ii  rpm2cpio      4.11.1-3

rpm recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rpm suggests:
ii  alien     8.89
pn  elfutils  <none>
pn  rpm-i18n  <none>

-- no debconf information


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