From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add older ruby 1.8.7 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 05:46:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20141026044636.GA18259@thebird.nl> References: <20141025225814.GA17304@thebird.nl> <87ppdfr8eh.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <20141026020905.GA17838@thebird.nl> <87y4s31mae.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59656) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiFjO-0004vu-I4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:47:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiFjJ-0001De-3w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:47:06 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:43545) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XiFjI-0001DY-UL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Oct 2014 00:47:01 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y4s31mae.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:34:49AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Mark H Weaver wrote: > > What's that "-p374" in the file name? If it's a patch level, then I > > think it should be part of the version string. > > Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Good point. How do we use patch levels anyway? > > I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. What does it mean to "use" > a patch level? We have package-name and package-version. Why not package-patch-level? I don't think it should be part of version. Pj.