From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWEgH-0004DO-Cd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:42:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65F44E07FA; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBB8E07FA for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEBC8D307 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:43:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oR+t9JAHBPXx for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:43:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853648D306 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:43:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:42:16 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] The eight digit limit Message-ID: <20080303174216.71f75957@snowcone> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/9+kv1hPKwkKg28kFwN+xYXH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: c9fad861-f3bd-40cd-bb16-da59a0e94935 X-Archives-Hash: db2f5c09c2c0c8b042ca3d0dcec7cdaf --Sig_/9+kv1hPKwkKg28kFwN+xYXH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable PMS currently has the following: > The package manager must not impose fixed limits upon the number of > version components. No integer part of a version specification may > contain more than eight digits. Package managers should indicate or > reject any version that is invalid according to these rules. Historically, Portage had weird bugs for excessively long version parts, especially when leading zeroes were involved, although as far as I'm aware it's clean with arbitrary lengths now. Paludis is clean (and issues a QA notice for violations), but portage-utils fails the whole version handling thing in an epic fashion. Given this, do we still need that restriction in place? There're quite a few violations in the tree. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/9+kv1hPKwkKg28kFwN+xYXH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHzDh796zL6DUtXhERAlLMAKDfAxokiKLCqYT6nYHRHa6cfnPFewCgnHQx ybP0TRPIr7WTKhM01dhsCKU= =1G9Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/9+kv1hPKwkKg28kFwN+xYXH-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list