Re: Lior Kaplan 2006-09-26 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm maintaing a few aspell packages. Aspell have upstream version which > contains > a '-' sign in it. In the debian changelog we workaround that by changing the > '-' > to a '+' sign. So the package has version something like 1.0+0-1 or 0.9+0-2 > (see aspell-he package) or 0.03+0-1 (see aspell-fa package).
Having multiple - signs in a version number is perfectly fine, I have several packages that do that. (Including aspell dictionaries.) You can even "upgrade" to a version without the hack: $ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0+0-1 lt 1.0-0-1 && echo yes yes Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature