From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8776138010 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F15AE030B for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CDFE002A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ia0-f181.google.com (mail-ia0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C5E0B33CB84 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadx2 with SMTP id x2so1040527iad.40 for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.89.130 with SMTP id bo2mr924867igb.60.1349247430256; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.178.73 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 23:56:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20587.57038.690414.911541@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20120925092414.GL37574@gentoo.org> <20577.32914.7474.976710@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20579.61409.451891.521881@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120927221336.GB9751@localhost> <20121003050446.GB6508@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net> <20587.57038.690414.911541@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> From: Matt Turner Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 23:56:49 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 6961f8e7-59fd-4605-83e3-f0a813489fd8 X-Archives-Hash: a9def58e492492ae1189b7a87158ec72 On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 3 Oct 2012, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> On 15:13 Thu 27 Sep , Brian Harring wrote: >>> What for? So someone can name their package foo-1? Is that really >>> such a major gap we're willing to induce breakage? >>> >>> Will anyone even !@#*ing use a package names foo-1? I've yet to see >>> an example given, just ignoring of the breakage it will induce. > >> I tend to agree. What value does this provide? It creates additional >> work for no proven real-world benefit. > > As I said before, the point is that the PMS isn't consequent, and > that there is a discrepancy between Portage and the PMS. Portage > is stricter because it also forbids package names like foo-1a or > foo-1_alpha that could be confused with a package name followed by > a version. > > (Something along the lines of "a hyphen followed by a digit must not > occur anywhere in a package name" would be even simpler. We cannot > do that because there are packages like font-adobe-100dpi that don't > conform with it.) > > Ulrich > This doesn't seem that difficult. How about "$PN must not end in a hyphen followed by 1 or more digits"?