Debian kernel packaging no longer accepts typical downstream version numbering.

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From	peter green <plugwash@p10link.net>
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Subject	Debian kernel packaging no longer accepts typical downstream version numbering.
Date	Mon, 07 May 2018 14:50:02 +0200
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Common practice for downstreams (whether complete derivatives or end users) is to version modified packages with a version number like

4.16.5-1+something1

Where "something" is the name of a project, the name of the person performing the modification etc.

Unfortunately with 4.16.5-1 of the kernel package such a version number is no longer accepted with the error message "Invalid debian linux version". It seems the cause of this was the following change.

      (?P<revision_other>
-        [^-]+
+        [^-+]+
      )

Reverting this change allowed me to get a succesful control files generation.

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Debian kernel packaging no longer accepts typical downstream version  numbering. peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> - 2018-05-07 14:50 +0200
  Re: Debian kernel packaging no longer accepts typical downstream  version numbering. Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2018-05-07 17:10 +0200

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