Bug#914271: lintian: Rationale behind hyphen-in-upstream-part-of-debian-changelog-version
> This suggests that you know tools that behave wrongly.
Unfortunately, I cannot help. I remember having issues when
experimenting with less common version numbers, but that may not have
been with dashes. My hope was to build a fence around policy to save a
maintainer from potential headaches (which I saw as a precaution more
than a cure). Since then, many packages have been so tagged, and none
of you have any problems. Turns out no fence was needed. Thank you for
following up!
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