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>>>>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Micha³ Górny wrote: |
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> A package name can't end up with something looking like version. |
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> Thus, if upstream names package: |
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> frobnicator-11 |
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> We need to rename it in the tree, effectively losing the ability to |
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> follow upstream naming and introducing a bunch of unnecessary MY_P, |
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> S variables. |
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You need to be more precise here. Package names like "foo-1a" or |
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"foo-2_alpha" are perfectly legal, see the discussion in bug 174536. |
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What is currently not allowed are package names ending with a hyphen |
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followed by digits only (as in your above example). This seems to be |
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completely arbitrary, and we could remove this limitation, even with |
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existing dependency syntax. |
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Ulrich |
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