On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:18:31 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > > > A package name can't end up with something looking like version. > > > Thus, if upstream names package: > > > frobnicator-11 > > > We need to rename it in the tree, effectively losing the ability to > > follow upstream naming and introducing a bunch of unnecessary MY_P, > > S variables. > > You need to be more precise here. Package names like "foo-1a" or > "foo-2_alpha" are perfectly legal, see the discussion in bug 174536. > > What is currently not allowed are package names ending with a hyphen > followed by digits only (as in your above example). This seems to be > completely arbitrary, and we could remove this limitation, even with > existing dependency syntax. I doubt we can. And we just extended it into repository names, didn't we? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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