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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:04:23AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>> The '~' character is used in package version numbers to allow them to
>>> correspond closely to upstream notation while still comparing in the
>>> expected way.
>> I remebered something like that and at first tried ~ but then lintian
>> complained loudly (bad-version-number).
>> False positive?
>> I also couldn't find a package in the archive which actually used ~.
>
> Yes, false positive. We've used ~ in Ubuntu for a while now. I don't think
> any versions currently in the archive happen to use it, but past ones have,
> as well as things like the bzr daily builds.
>
According to [1] it's not yet safe to use ~ in packages for the Debian
archive. Things might be different for the Ubuntu archive of course.
Cheers,
Michael
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315919
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