Am 12. März 2023 15:58:00 MEZ schrieb Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>: >On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 09:15:35 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: >> >> > Version 20191112-1.2 was created because the upstream had no official >> > release at that time; for this reason, the 20191112-1.2 was created and >> > named based on a date. > >In future, please use a lower version number when packaging unreleased >software. A version starting with an 8-digit date is almost guaranteed >to compare greater than whatever upstream eventually chooses,
Could lintian warn when a date based version is used? (I haven't checked how many upstreams use date-based versions intentionally and fully aware of the consequences, but I think the problem appears mostly if upstream does not do any formal releases at all, so the package maintainer concocts some arbitrary version number on their own) mfh.her.fsr IOhannes
