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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 10:03:19
Message-Id: 20080506110307.7c691d22@snowcone
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for May by Mike Frysinger
1 On 01 May 2008 05:30:01
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3 > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even
4 > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole
5 > Gentoo dev list to see.
6
7 I'd like a decision on the eight digits thing in PMS:
8
9 > No integer part of a version specification may contain more than eight
10 > digits.
11
12 It's been discussed on this list previously:
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14 http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_db2f5c09c2c0c8b042ca3d0dcec7cdaf.xml
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16 and on bugzilla:
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18 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188449
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20 and I get the impression that there aren't any particularly strong
21 feelings either way. So can we get a Council ruling to either kill the
22 limit and strongly encourage people to fix their code, or keep the
23 limit and start enforcing it and fixing it in the tree via repoman etc?
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26 Ciaran McCreesh

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