On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:14:33AM -0600, Marc F. Clemente wrote: > > Agreed, where "valid version number" is defined as something that can be > > manipulated with arithmetic operators. > > I believe the Debian policy manual, action 5.6.12, describes exactly what a > version number can be. Alphanumeric characters are allowed, as are some > special characters.
If the issue was related to a package version number, then policy would indeed be the right place to look for guidance. It is not. The issue is that an unreleased Net::DNS perl library was uploaded to Debian containing what I claim to be a bug. Others disagree with this characterization. The bug has since been fixed upstream and in unstable. The discussion here is whether the upstream fix should be allowed to migrate into frozen testing, or whether we need a new spamassassin upload to work around the buggy library in testing. noah
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