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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:13:20
Message-Id: 462F0C9B.7020200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:31:48 -0700
3 > "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
4 >> printf "_rc%d%04d%02d%02d",$RC,$YEAR,$MONTH,$DAY
5 >
6 > Funnily enough... If we're going by PMS drafts, that's illegal whereas
7 > multiple suffixes are legal. PMS permits multiple suffixes, but limits
8 > any individual version component to eight digits to avoid problems with
9 > integer overflows, floating point precision etc.
10 >
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12 Give that all we need for mplayer is a date (as in yyyymmdd) I think we
13 could come up with a good interim workaround.
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15 I'd like to have multiple suffixes restored anyway...
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