On Mon, 18 May 2009 01:30:26 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>>>> 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
We've had that problem ever since -100dpi things had to be made legal, and the horrible mess explaining the splitting rules in PMS came about from the last time we had this discussion. This isn't anything new -- it's just something we have to define very carefully. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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