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>>>>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Micha³ Górny wrote: |
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>> What is currently not allowed are package names ending with a hyphen |
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>> followed by digits only (as in your above example). This seems to be |
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>> completely arbitrary, and we could remove this limitation, even with |
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>> existing dependency syntax. |
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> I doubt we can. |
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Nobody could tell me a technical reason why this limitation exists. |
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Why should "foo-1" be forbidden for PN if "foo-1a" is allowed? |
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> And we just extended it into repository names, didn't we? |
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Indeed, looks like I've missed this. But it shouldn't be a problem, if |
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we loosen the spec for package names, the one for repository names |
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just follows it. |
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Ulrich |
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