[Treepkg-devel] Debian package names/versions on debian/sid systems.

[Bernhard Herzog]

On 07.01.2011, Sascha L. Teichmann wrote:
> Hi together!
>
> I ran into a debian naming/version problem on debian sid systems
> particular with our KDEPIM for Maemo Fremantle armel [1] builder.
>
> When I log into the corresponding build system and I do e.g.
>
> $ dpkg --compare-versions \
>   'strigi-utils_0.7.2.20100813-1maemo1.1163326_i386.deb' \
>   gt \
>   'strigi-utils_0.7.2.20100818-1maemo1.1165226_i386.deb'
>
> dpkg: version 'strigi-utils_0.7.2.20100813-1maemo1.1163326_i386.deb' has
> bad syntax: invalid character in version number

What is the invalid character?

Also, the strings in the example are package names, not version numbers.  Does

  dpkg --compare-versions 0.7.2.20100813-1maemo1.1163326 \
       gt 0.7.2.20100818-1maemo1.1165226

work, i.e. exit with exit code 1 but without error messages?  I think it 
should because the version strings match the specification in the debian
policy manual 
(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version):

   The format is: [epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision] 
   [...]
   upstream_version [...] may contain only alphanumerics[33] and the
   characters . + - : ~ (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon, tilde) and should
   start with a digit
   [...]
   debian_revision [...] may contain only alphanumerics and the characters
   + . ~ (plus, full stop, tilde) 

In your example, both upstream_version and debian_revision only contain 
alpha-numerics and full stops and upstream_version starts with a digit.

Regards

   Bernhard