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On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:18:31 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > A package name can't end up with something looking like version. |
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> > Thus, if upstream names package: |
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> > frobnicator-11 |
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> > We need to rename it in the tree, effectively losing the ability to |
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> > follow upstream naming and introducing a bunch of unnecessary MY_P, |
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> > S variables. |
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> You need to be more precise here. Package names like "foo-1a" or |
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> "foo-2_alpha" are perfectly legal, see the discussion in bug 174536. |
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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. And we just extended it into repository names, didn't |
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we? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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