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 1M5pK1-0002JY-HO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 22:59:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27CCFE032A; Sun, 17 May 2009 22:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE7FE032A for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 22:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so3595725ewy.34 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 15:59:07 -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=dJ4znYEs5mo7h8dwxod03cktAGajO+Ku2z4RCEbzmOo=; b=wfX08xaxDOW5IEmAoABRe0BEEbGxTOhE5pdhjCGuMl3PYK4ayP5yXqEy1FkSo1bI7i kjAleL1EAU7WL4ZGZQLWSvP2DMRceQO+92DPPpdJS8hBia5UcjOh1Ct8wL6heCYjrwOv naaSdQn82RULbglwWRUJ3xCFAbDJw+OI2U47Q= 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=iFS44U6ChSehdI7IjRoJfgmk2+jq09j8m/R8PGeo0ZtH4fpwz7p0YgXDX+Vp0hz7Sv ightGOV3HClNb3A6U9kMTZlSqZA4Y33XvUWOm3ZGyWQdJyaHF8eXp71HJl/Pk0bNoA1T pI52NrLEKV3Al41xCtgGyeL6pbaCR4bAAOffg= Received: by 10.210.17.2 with SMTP id 2mr6929939ebq.35.1242601147287; Sun, 17 May 2009 15:59:07 -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 5sm5205096eyf.58.2009.05.17.15.59.06 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 17 May 2009 15:59:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:58:54 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 updated Message-ID: <20090517235854.69b2982d@snowmobile> In-Reply-To: <18960.38284.120184.856068@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <7c612fc60905170920k22189731i2540514e24e60959@mail.gmail.com> <18960.18295.65849.57779@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4A104BCE.7000001@gentoo.org> <4A107F05.7020001@gentoo.org> <20090517222016.3164b564@snowmobile> <4A108AC5.30309@gentoo.org> <20090517231114.733b4757@snowmobile> <18960.38284.120184.856068@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> 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_/ZX6YzQaMwuS1AR3/7WVwqJT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 3729d599-2d1d-46f7-9362-c1484cffccf5 X-Archives-Hash: 3afd03e8b12f6342bfa935c7e89260db --Sig_/ZX6YzQaMwuS1AR3/7WVwqJT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 18 May 2009 00:54:04 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Upstreams don't standardise either way on - vs _, so there's no > > reason Gentoo should. >=20 > Upstreams use all sorts of strange versioning schemes. Here is a small > collection: And we can handle a lot more of them sensibly than we currently do. We can't cover everything, but of these: > 1_14 -> 1.14 (app-emacs/limit) > 1.0pre4 -> 1.0_pre4 (app-emacs/cedet) > 12B5 -> 12.2.5 (dev-lang/erlang) These we should handle. > 1.9.1-preview1 -> 1.9.1_pre1 (app-emacs/ruby-mode) This we could handle easily if there are more things using -preview. > 2.0b6 -> 2.0_beta6 (app-emacs/chess) This we can't sensibly, since most people using b use it as a 'greater than' thing. > 0.28 -> 28.0 (dev-lang/c-intercal, minor.major) > -0.74 -> ?? (SmallEiffel, negative version > number) 1.-94.-2 -> ?? (CLC-Intercal, negative > components) These are upstreams being deliberately silly, so we can ignore them. > We have to draw the borderline somewhere, and I think our current > rules are a reasonable compromise. Forbidding -rc is not a reasonable compromise... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/ZX6YzQaMwuS1AR3/7WVwqJT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoQlrYACgkQ96zL6DUtXhHfGgCgyFImYLr9u+N38QAT3CXoF9HV rjAAn1es37hb6Jm328YLhFRtjO5zWnXk =Y05D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ZX6YzQaMwuS1AR3/7WVwqJT--