Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Sounds to me as a MELPA-specific problem that should be solved there,
> not in Emacs.
>
>> But it’s true that with this change some very long strings will be
>> parsed as valid.  This returns '(0 9), which is sort of ridiculous:
>> 
>> (version-to-list "It’s true that with this change some very long strings will be parsed as valid: 0.9")
>> 
>> But I guess I’m not sure what the danger is in letting that happen.  Is
>> version-to-list often used to parse arbitrary strings, where false
>> positives would cause problems?
>
> I just don't see a reason for such a radical change in behavior of a
> feature that has been very stable lately.
>
> Thanks.