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

[Sascha L. Teichmann]

Am 07.01.2011 12:41, schrieb Bernhard Herzog:
> [...]
> 
> 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.
>

Argh! Sorry for the noise. I should have read my own script more
carefully. It calls "dpkg-deb -f xxx.deb Version" before to extract
the version number correctly.

- Sascha