On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 20:31:46 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 18:57 Sun 09 Dec     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:45:27 +0100
> > Jan Kundrát <jkt@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > What is the point of using version information along the scm
> > > suffix?
> > 
> > Branches.
> 
> How would I handle branches that aren't numbers but are instead
> strings, which seems to grow increasingly more common as VCSs can
> handle it? Just give them arbitrary numbers?

Feature as opposed to release branches would still have to be separate
packages, especially if you need to depend upon a particular feature.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh