Wrong deb package version (missing zero)

[vangelis]

Hi

It seems the perl module package version is 0.04: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/liblingua-en-number-isordinal-perl/trusty/view/head:/lib/Lingua/EN/Number/IsOrdinal.pm#L6

whereas the deb package version is 0.4

# grep VERSION /usr/share/perl5/Lingua/EN/Number/IsOrdinal.pm
  $Lingua::EN::Number::IsOrdinal::VERSION = '0.04';

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

# grep VERSION /usr/share/perl5/Lingua/EN/Number/IsOrdinal.pm
  $Lingua::EN::Number::IsOrdinal::VERSION = '0.04';

# apt-cache show liblingua-en-number-isordinal-perl | grep Version
Version: 0.4-1

[gregor herrmann (gregoa)]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:02:23 -0000, vangelis wrote:

> It seems the perl module package version is 0.04:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/liblingua-en-number-isordinal-perl/trusty/view/head:/lib/Lingua/EN/Number/IsOrdinal.pm#L6
> whereas the deb package version is 0.4

The same is true for a couple of other packages.
(It least initially, after the first upgrade they are "fixed".)

The reason is that dh-make-perl was a bit over-enthusiatic in
massaging upstream versions; this behaviour was changed in commit
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/dh-make-perl.git/commit/?id=f21a54b8a64578817d5e2036eef2ae4518361575
which was first released in 0.77-1.

From a practical point of view, I'm not aware of any problem this
version mangling causes. dpkg doesn't care:

% dpkg --compare-versions 0.04 eq 0.4 && echo equal
equal

and we also never found other issues. So while this is unnecessary
and aesthetically inconvenient I don't consider this an actual bug.

Cheers,
gregor

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[vangelis (vkatsikaros)]

Hi gregor

Yes, it didn't caused any problems here either, I just noticed that and reported it. Didn't know it was a more genereic (dh-make-perl) issue.

Thanks!