Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> - Package names:
>   Our current spec forbids that package names "end in a hyphen
>   followed by one or more digits". This isn't consequent, since it
>   still allows PN to be e.g. "foo-1a" which looks like a valid PF.
>   OTOH, there's no technical reason for this limitation (backwards
>   compatibility issues taken aside).
>   Since this issue is open since more than five years, I believe that
>   it's time to ask the council for guidance in what direction we
>   should go:
>     a) Drop the limitation entirely (possibly in a future EAPI).
>     b) Make it stricter, i.e. disallow package names ending in a
>        hyphen followed by anything that looks like a valid PVR.
>        This is current Portage behaviour, and the tree complies with
>        it, too.
>     c) Leave the spec as it is (and make Portage comply with it).
>   See bug 174536 for details.

Actually, there's also:
    d) Require a) for Package managers and b) by tree policy
       (Postel's Law, brought up by mgorny). Practically, this would
       mean that repoman would reject "foo-1" as package name, but the
       rest of Portage would accept it.

Ulrich