On Sunday 30 March 2008, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > those arent the same thing.  -r# is a Gentoo-specific revision
> > marking. _alpha/_rc/etc... are used to track upstream.  if upstream
> > uses _alpha0, then it makes our lives easier to also use _alpha0.
> > -r0 has no benefit and it isnt inconsistent as that portion of the
> > version is for Gentoo use only.
>
> Every other part allows the magic 0 behaviour. Banning it for one part
> only is another one of those 'special case' rules we're trying to avoid
> because no-one knows them.

i dont particularly care about -r0, i'm just stating that banning 
_alpha0/etc... is not acceptable.  besides, enforcing no -r0 in the tree is 
easy to do with a server side hook.
-mike

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