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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Lenght of version components [was: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008]
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 05:06:06
Message-Id: 18467.56249.895840.583275@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008 by Donnie Berkholz
1 >>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2
3 > PMS: Are versions allowed to have more than 8 digits?
4 > -----------------------------------------------------
5
6 > specifically to ask the package maintainers with extremely
7 > long PVs whether they were needed and to test the impact of
8 > extending versionator.eclass. The involved packages:
9
10 > sys-process/fuser-bsd
11 > sys-apps/net-tools
12 > sys-apps/gradm
13 > net-im/ntame
14 > media-video/captury
15 > media-libs/libcaptury
16 > media-libs/capseo
17 > sys-block/btrace
18 > www-apache/mod_depends
19 > net-wireless/rt2500
20 > sys-fs/unionfs
21
22 You may add app-emacs/limit and app-emacs/mu-cite to this list.
23 Currently we limit ourselves to 8 digits for them, but both upstream
24 tarballs are named in the infamous YYYYMMDDHHMM format.
25
26 Ulrich
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