Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Technically, this is not a dpkg-source but because dpkg (and APT) do
> not validate version numbers. Some ISVs rely on this and they use
> forbidden characters in version strings ('_' seems to be quite common,
> for example). And I suspect that there are no two programs in Debian
> which implement exactly the same version comparison algorithm, but
> this is a different story. 8-/
dpkg does verify the validity of version numbers. Maybe not to the
fullest limit of policy but there is a fair bit of checking.
MfG
Goswin
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