From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 19219@debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:09:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151231100934.231cee5b@debian-netbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151231011631.GB23122@jasmine>
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:16:31 -0500
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:45:14PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> [...]
> [...]
> [...]
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> > I'm OK with that. Since choosing the reserved characters is not a
> > technical decision, maybe we could poll users?
>
> I think we should poll a big list of packages and see which characters
> are most safe to use.
>
> The question is: which big list? Debian's?
>
>
When debian adopted multiarch they had a small internal fight about what characters to use, since there are only so many usable characters. IIRC, a long version of a debian package could be 1:6.3.2-1+bpo1~henry. I don't remember if their sorting takes into account ascii order or their own internal order, but I'm pretty sure they only allow using each character once.
http://www.fifi.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-versions.html
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/first.en.html#namever
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-31 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-29 20:31 bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes Andreas Enge
2014-12-06 23:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-08 18:42 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-12-10 13:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-21 18:27 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-12-21 21:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-22 21:23 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-12-23 8:05 ` Alex Kost
2015-12-30 14:07 ` bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version? Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-30 22:45 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-12-31 1:16 ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-31 8:09 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2016-01-01 15:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-01 21:25 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-01 21:45 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-02 3:18 ` carl hansen
2015-12-31 8:19 ` Alex Kost
2015-12-31 11:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-31 16:26 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-01 20:36 ` Andreas Enge
2016-01-09 3:04 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-01-18 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-18 8:31 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-02 21:10 ` Mathieu Lirzin
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