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[Pietro Battiston <toobaz@xxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

My ppa has a package remove-duplicates-plugin_0.0.4-1~ppa1 targeting
Karmic.

Today I was trying to upload remove-duplicates-plugin_0.0.4-1~ppa1~hardy
, targeting Hardy, but my upload was rejected because:

Rejected:
remove-duplicates-plugin_0.0.4-1~ppa1~hardy.dsc: Version older than that in the archive. 0.0.4-1~ppa1~hardy <= 0.0.4-1~ppa1

Now, to my eyes it is perfectly OK that I upload an older version for a
different release (in particular for an older release!).

However, in #launchpad I was told by bjools that my versioning is wrong.
Still, the help page ([1]) doesn't make clear what exactly is wrong, and
I have no clue about it: both the naming schemes are fine per se, and
there is no particularly intuitive reason why mixing them should give
particular problems.

Please clarify the exact rules that version numbers should follow.

[1]:
http://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Versioning

** Affects: launchpad-documentation
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Clarify requirements for version names in PPAs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498371
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