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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> PMS currently has the following: |
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>> The package manager must not impose fixed limits upon the number of |
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>> version components. No integer part of a version specification may |
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>> contain more than eight digits. Package managers should indicate or |
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>> reject any version that is invalid according to these rules. |
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> Historically, Portage had weird bugs for excessively long version |
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> parts, especially when leading zeroes were involved, although as far as |
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> I'm aware it's clean with arbitrary lengths now. Paludis is clean (and |
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> issues a QA notice for violations), but portage-utils fails the |
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> whole version handling thing in an epic fashion. |
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could you please fill a bug about portage-utils on our bugzilla? |
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> Given this, do we still need that restriction in place? There're quite |
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> a few violations in the tree. |
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I think the issue could be addressed and the limitation relaxed. |
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lu |
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