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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> PMS currently has the following:
> 
>> The package manager must not impose fixed limits upon the number of
>> version components. No integer part of a version specification may
>> contain more than eight digits. Package managers should indicate or
>> reject any version that is invalid according to these rules.
> 
> Historically, Portage had weird bugs for excessively long version
> parts, especially when leading zeroes were involved, although as far as
> I'm aware it's clean with arbitrary lengths now. Paludis is clean (and
> issues a QA notice for violations), but portage-utils fails the
> whole version handling thing in an epic fashion.

could you please fill a bug about portage-utils on our bugzilla?

> Given this, do we still need that restriction in place? There're quite
> a few violations in the tree.

I think the issue could be addressed and the limitation relaxed.

lu

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