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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Subject: Lenght of version components [was: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008]
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 07:06:01 +0200
>>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

>	PMS: Are versions allowed to have more than 8 digits?
>	-----------------------------------------------------

> 	specifically to ask the package maintainers with extremely
>	long PVs whether they were needed and to test the impact of
>	extending versionator.eclass. The involved packages:

>		sys-process/fuser-bsd
>		sys-apps/net-tools
>		sys-apps/gradm
>		net-im/ntame
>		media-video/captury
>		media-libs/libcaptury
>		media-libs/capseo
>		sys-block/btrace
>		www-apache/mod_depends
>		net-wireless/rt2500
>		sys-fs/unionfs

You may add app-emacs/limit and app-emacs/mu-cite to this list.
Currently we limit ourselves to 8 digits for them, but both upstream
tarballs are named in the infamous YYYYMMDDHHMM format.

Ulrich
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