On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:39:34 -0400
"Dan McGee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/28/07, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2007/5/28, Michael Towers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Is it now allowed to have a '.' in the 'pkgrel'? Was it always allowed?
> > > If so, is it necessary? If not, why does pacman accept it?
> >
> > It is allowed to state that this is a change for one arch only (i.e.
> > x86-64-specific).
> 
> I've brought this up elsewhere, but I will state an opinion on this
> thread- I think keeping pkgrel to an integer is a much smarter idea.
> First off, that version number is hard to parse by a human- far too
> many dashes and dots to know which is what. Second, the only change
> I've ever seen that uses a .1 increment is adding an architecture to
> the arch array. This is completely unnecessary- there is no need to
> bump the pkgrel at all, and if you do want to bump it, then just bump
> it a full integer.
> 
> Thoughts?
Agreed. 

> -Dan
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