W rc-version-greater-than-expected-version

All reports of rc-version-greater-than-expected-version for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

The package appears to be a release candidate or preview release, but the version sorts higher than the expected final release.

Note this check is limited to new upstream releases of non-native packages.

Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.12 (Version) for details.

Severity: normal, Certainty: possible

Check: fields, Type: binary, udeb, source

Evolution of the rc-version-greater-than-expected-version Lintian tag over the past 366 days:

Emitted (non-overridden): 9, overridden: 4, total: 13

The package names link to the relevant maintainer page and the corresponding report for the source package. The links go to the full maintainer report page, which includes info and experimental tags and overridden tags, rather than the default page that shows only errors and warnings.

cen64-qt 20180730-alpha-1 (source) (Dan Hasting <maintainer@hasting.email>) overridden

• O 20180730-alpha > 20180730 (consider using 20180730~alpha)

cen64-qt 20180730-alpha-1 (binary) (Dan Hasting <maintainer@hasting.email>)

• 20180730-alpha > 20180730 (consider using 20180730~alpha)

cen64-qt-dbgsym 20180730-alpha-1 (binary) (Dan Hasting <maintainer@hasting.email>)

• 20180730-alpha > 20180730 (consider using 20180730~alpha)

multiwatch 1.0.0-rc1+really1.0.0-1 (source) (Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>)

• 1.0.0-rc1+really1.0.0 > 1.0.0 (consider using 1.0.0~rc1+really1.0.0)

pmount 0.9.99-alpha-1 (source) (Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>)

• 0.9.99-alpha > 0.9.99 (consider using 0.9.99~alpha)

pmount 0.9.99-alpha-1 (binary) (Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>)

• 0.9.99-alpha > 0.9.99 (consider using 0.9.99~alpha)
• 0.9.99-alpha > 0.9.99 (consider using 0.9.99~alpha)

tsocks 1.8beta5+ds1-1 (source) (Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>) overridden

• O 1.8beta5+ds1 > 1.8 (consider using 1.8~beta5+ds1)

tsocks 1.8beta5+ds1-1 (binary) (Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>) overridden

• O 1.8beta5+ds1 > 1.8 (consider using 1.8~beta5+ds1)
• O 1.8beta5+ds1 > 1.8 (consider using 1.8~beta5+ds1)

tsocks-dbgsym 1.8beta5+ds1-1 (binary) (Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>)

• 1.8beta5+ds1 > 1.8 (consider using 1.8~beta5+ds1)
• 1.8beta5+ds1 > 1.8 (consider using 1.8~beta5+ds1)

vbindiff 3.0-beta5-1 (source) (Miriam Ruiz <miriam@debian.org>)

• 3.0-beta5 > 3.0 (consider using 3.0~beta5)