>>>>> On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

>> How? Both "limit-1_14" and "erlang-12B5" are valid package names,
>> so how do you determine where PN ends and where PV starts?

> By the time the things we need to get this done end up being
> accepted, we'll probably be using ranged deps, so it won't be an
> issue.

In fact, with GLEP 54 we have the problem already now.
P=foo-1a-scm could mean both of the following:

   PN=foo     PV=1a-scm
   PN=foo-1a  PV=scm

Ulrich

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