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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?
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To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: 19219@debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:26:56AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> If the @ is for the optional choice of including a version, I'm good
> with it.  It does mean we can never have @ in our package names, but
> that might be a good restriction anyway :)

According to the packaging guidelines, package names should only contain
lower-case letters, digits and "-" (the formulation is a bit ambiguous,
but this is the intent). So any choice of separators apart from "-" should
be fine, and we can happily bikeshed!

Andreas