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From: Jim Razmus
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Re: poll: package-specs and version numbers
Date: Monday, July 14, 2008 - 11:28 am
* Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> [080714 09:46]:
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> Current documentation says: > > The version part starts at the first digit that follows a `-', and > goes on up to the following `-', or to the end of the package name, > if no flavor modifier is present. It is highly recommended that > all packages have a version number. > > I'd like to modify that to make the version number *mandatory*. > In the worst case, an artificial version of 0 would be okay. > > The main reason for that is that the current fuzzy spec allows people > to build packages with really weird names, and then they figure out later > that they did it wrong. > > With `stronger' specs guarantees, I can add more checks in the > pkg_* code (for package names and for dependency specifications) that > will give out more explicit diagnostics for wrong package names. > > Any objections ? >
I like strong specifications. Doesn't conflict with any porting I've done, albeit I'm still pretty green. Jim
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poll: package-specs and version numbers
, Marc Espie
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Re: poll: package-specs and version numbers
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Re: poll: package-specs and version numbers
, Peter N. M. Hansteen
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Re: poll: package-specs and version numbers
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