From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5MxQ-0004L3-Gh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 May 2009 16:41:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53782E055D; Sat, 16 May 2009 16:39:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com (mail-fx0-f219.google.com [209.85.220.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124DEE055D for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 16:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-fx0-f219.google.com with SMTP id 19so2342840fxm.34 for ; Sat, 16 May 2009 09:39:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=uPT46IozEi1r7rDZAEd+GTzs/O8ri8IJ7C1UAMKJDAE=; b=icvKApxmDRO9sCt7xR6mw6FM8FnJNTGElwRCaKCBopeV7WZjn6iSJnGaJX0HR/vq0H 4PxeDiqDgCK2dGhipItemutb18vkuJe789+4ok22xOP5nyxcFed9gzT9YX9YzCV2h7YD Eqp9ok9Q26i592tccgnBOmptQzXentBN7iKh8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=pxQWlrlYGpUKQb5ptsIxY2WkYXBQl5088ehdQ66jH8wCwIWhjt3GJ6/WLCYgBqKli/ JHbBIs6iwHR4AunVY5ImL5Et0lM0ARGJCUUkuuVDzZYjldhmXoiIkQkgRuqnbDNemjUr qPvGaxGRcD2u2xzRLkNWHfKIoPlxTqCbVTIcE= Received: by 10.103.215.15 with SMTP id s15mr3001596muq.118.1242491993739; Sat, 16 May 2009 09:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowmobile (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n7sm1395788mue.58.2009.05.16.09.39.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 16 May 2009 09:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 17:39:48 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The fallacies of GLEP55 Message-ID: <20090516173948.73b23e43@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <1242491708.7309.3.camel@peripatetic.hades> References: <4A0C790A.1050209@gentoo.org> <20090514231623.409c8eb7@gentoo.org> <20090514214909.GA23080@linux1> <20090514225337.34df7dac@snowcone> <20090515194329.GA16382@linux1> <20090515204905.54aa6a5c@snowmobile> <20090516092710.GA3221@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <20090516151216.15efc792@snowmobile> <20090516153224.GA4964@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <20090516163421.32935cbc@snowmobile> <20090516154332.GA6646@eric.schwarzvogel.de> <20090516164903.261df865@snowmobile> <1242491708.7309.3.camel@peripatetic.hades> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/f1mU97ALxqkSprTDhvkEVzF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: fc7fc4bf-5196-4fb9-ac28-320e35725eaa X-Archives-Hash: ebffab4a62868f003c672053dd011dee --Sig_/f1mU97ALxqkSprTDhvkEVzF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/f1mU97ALxqkSprTDhvkEVzF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoO7FYACgkQ96zL6DUtXhE6EACeJ29e3SCGPsr1j3YRXb3R1qGV I9AAoOFUc4NvWLHMcdaLDPZnyrZa0cF3 =ZQjG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/f1mU97ALxqkSprTDhvkEVzF--