[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] invalid character in revision number

[Michael Meskes]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:41:32AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> The package is broken in Sid and blocks any use of dpkg, aptitude and
> apt, pretty much rendering a system completely static as far as
> packages go - can't upgrade or install any package. Maybe the package
> maintainers oughta check what upstream is doing with their versioning
> numbers, to make sure one package doesn't break a system.

No, you got me wrong. This is not part of the upstream version number, but a
bug in upstream's Debian package which we have no influence on. So you're
definitely talking to the wrong people here. Besides a simple look should have
showed you that upstream already fixed that problem.

Michael

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