On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:17:44PM -0700, Jason Chu wrote:

> The reason - is only allowed in pkgname and nowhere else is a parsing
> issue.
>
> Take this as an example: foo-bar-1.0-08-9.tar.gz. Is that the package
> foo-bar with a version of 1.0-08 and a release of 9 or is the package
> foo with a version of bar-1.0 and a release 08-9 or is the package foo
> with a version bar and pkgrel of 1.0-08-9? It's too ambiguous. That's
> the reason behind the requirement.
Does anyone use a pkgrel that is not a number?

  When this would be convention, we could drop the annoying issue with
dashes in the pkgname and allow them in the next pacman release.

  Leslie

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