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bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?
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Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version? |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:09:34 +0200 |
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:16:31 -0500
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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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- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/08
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/10
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/21
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/21
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/22
- bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes, Alex Kost, 2015/12/23
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Mathieu Lirzin, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Leo Famulari, 2015/12/30
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?,
Efraim Flashner <=
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Alex Kost, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/31
- bug#19219: New command-line syntax for package + version?, Christopher Allan Webber, 2015/12/31