On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:05:08 +0530 Arun Raghavan wrote: > So from all the debate that's going on, the current major issue seems > to be being able to support '-scm' as per GLEP-54. What other > restrictions in the version format are you referring to? Have a look at every package using a MY_PV style thing. Group those into "upstream's doing something dumb" and "upstream's being sensible but our arbitrary restrictions on rules means we can't follow what they do". There are an awful lot of things in the second category. There's no good reason, for example, that _alpha is legal but -alpha is not; both are common. -- Ciaran McCreesh