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
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