Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:

> The following are new to me, so should I add a "v" in (version …) for
> those packages?  I see for example perl-file-find-object has it.
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> /home/natsu/src/guix-wip-licensecheck/gnu/packages/license.scm:108:2: licensecheck@3.0.31: can be upgraded to v3.0.31
> /home/natsu/src/guix-wip-licensecheck/gnu/packages/license.scm:33:2: perl-regexp-pattern-license@3.0.31: can be upgraded to v3.0.31
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This is a bug in the CPAN updater.  We strip the 'v' prefix from package
versions, which confuses the updater when upstream uses a 'v' prefix in
the metadata.

It would be nice to make it ignore that :-)