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 > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
