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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