Bug#914271: lintian: Rationale behind hyphen-in-upstream-part-of-debian-changelog-version

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

[adding felix.lechner@lease-up.com to CC]

Hi Johannes,

> my package rss-bridge was just tagged with […]

As it wasn't immediately obvious from the bug report-alone

 rss-bridge | 2018-07-17-1.2 | buster | source, all
 rss-bridge | 2018-07-17-1.2 | sid    | source, all
                  ^^^^

> N:   The upstream version in the debian changelog contains one ore more
> N:   hyphens. While that is okay according to policy, some tools may croak.
> 
> Why is this a lintian warning at all?

This was added in:

  https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/0005c81dc200a0787a2716aacd6e00f859101c36

Felix, can you clarify to josch here? I would agree with the
sentiment that we should just fix the other tools instead of
warning here.


Best wishes,

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