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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 54 and hyphens in PV (was: GLEP 55 updated)
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:43:47
Message-Id: 18960.41263.854038.675219@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 updated by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 >> In fact, with GLEP 54 we have the problem already now.
4 >> P=foo-1a-scm could mean both of the following:
5 >>
6 >> PN=foo PV=1a-scm
7 >> PN=foo-1a PV=scm
8
9 > We've had that problem ever since -100dpi things had to be made legal,
10
11 But so far you can split P into PN and PV at the last hyphen, because
12 it is guaranteed that PV contains no hyphens.
13
14 Trouble starts if hyphens in PV are allowed.
15
16 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 54 and hyphens in PV (was: GLEP 55 updated) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>