Subject: it's a git issue...

From: KatolaZ <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:25:34 +0100

The problem is that git cannot create tags which contain ":". To make
my point more cleas: what we could do is to replace the ":" with a "_"
in the git tag, not in debian/changelog. So a command like:

  $ d1h stage 2:1.3.27+devuan1.7

would create a regular entry in debian/changelog with version number

  2:1.3.27+devuan1.7

but the associated git tag would be called

  2_1.3.27+devuan1.7

The only other option I see is to forget the epoch number in the git
tag (again, only in the git tag, not in debian/changelog).

To be honest, I would actually prefer the second solution (i.e.,
dropping the epoch in the git tag).

HND

KatolaZ