From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:35:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rpmbuild doesn't like '-' in version strings
Message-ID: <7vslrqfsz8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <43C95E25.3070006@research.att.com>

John Ellson <ellson@research.att.com> writes:

> Anyway, this is above and beyond doing something with sed to
> fix the '-' issue.

What I am saying is that until that issue of ordering is
resolved (and I highly suspect it is unsolvable) I think it is
dangerous and more confusing to let binary packages be built,
and it is better to simply forbid it like in the current
scheme.

BTW, if we _were_ to do a sed, please do s/-/./g instead; the
underscore breaks Debian if I am not mistaken.