On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:55:28AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Marc Haber:
> > debsecan complains
> > "invalid version 1.2.9-1~zg1 of package $PACKAGE"
> >
> > The version is, however, correct. This should be fixed.
> 
> How?  Is there an official description of the ~ semantics?

I didn't find any official description short of #150739 and #93386.
The semantics are, that 1.0-1~1 is smaller than 1.0-1 but greater than
1.0-0. This is very useful for creation of backport version numbers.

Greetings
Marc

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