Announcement letter of Network Manager 0.6 and KNetworkManager availability

[Dana Olson]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 23:33 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:04:23AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > The '~' character is used in package version numbers to allow them to
> > > correspond closely to upstream notation while still comparing in the
> > > expected way.
> > 
> > I remebered something like that and at first tried ~ but then lintian
> > complained loudly (bad-version-number).
> > False positive?
> > I also couldn't find a package in the archive which actually used ~.
> 
> Yes, false positive.  We've used ~ in Ubuntu for a while now.  I don't think
> any versions currently in the archive happen to use it, but past ones have,
> as well as things like the bzr daily builds.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> 

Looks like ~ is used for Backports?

Example:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lmms/

Dana