On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:22:44 +0000 Jon Turney wrote: > On 13/01/2023 11:52, Takashi Yano via Cygwin-apps wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it allowed to include '-' in version string (e.g. '20230113-stable')? > > I'm asking because mksetupini warns: > > > > mksetupini: file 'xxx.tar.xz' in package yyy contains '-' in version > > > > though it works as expected. > > Short answer: > > It's a bug that this isn't a fatal error. Please don't do it! > > Long answer: > > Package naming in Cygwin has a long and tangled history. This isn't > explicitly precluded by the rules at [1], but probably should be. > > (Fedora, which we generally follow for packaging rules, now doesn't > allow '-' in versions, just digits, letters and '.') > > We need to be able to unambiguously separate a NVR string into the > package name, version and release. > > Underscores are allowed in package names, so the simple approach of > splitting on the rightmost two hyphens would work, if we don't allow > exceptions like this. > > (We can get it right in this case, because we have a piece of extra > information: the directory the package is in, which happens to always be > named N in the current scheme of things, but we might want to change that) > > [1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-package-files.html > > > In any case, you should be suspicious of using upstream version names of > this form. They may expect the 'stable' string to sort against other > strings based on meaning, rather than alphabetically (e.g. > '20230113-testing' is considered greater, which is probably not what's > wanted)
Thanks for the answer. I'll use version 20230113 with release 1.g<git hash tag> e.g. package-name-20230113-1.g123456789abc like cygwin test package. -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp>