Package: iproute Version: 20120521-3 Severity: serious The package version uses a datestamp for the upstream version. As you know, upstream started making formal releases where the version string indicates the latest kernel version for which it is expected to provide full feature coverage.
The continued use of datestamps in the package version makes it difficult to understand which upstream version it is based on, and appears to violate policy ยง5.6.12 (hence the severity). Policy says "Usually this will be in the same format as that specified by the upstream author(s); however, it may need to be reformatted to fit into the package management system's format and comparison scheme." But this is not a mere reformatting. Obviously, fixing this would require use of an epoch. Also, I don't expect it to be worth fixing this for wheezy. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages iproute depends on: ii libc6 2.13-36 ii libdb5.1 5.1.29-5 Versions of packages iproute recommends: pn libatm1 <none> Versions of packages iproute suggests: pn iproute-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
