There's actually quite a few slackbuilds that have versions ending in a letter(179, about half of which include a year or git commits) so it is allowed, just not very common.
Cheers On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 2:45 PM Didier Spaier <did...@slint.fr> wrote: > > As a SlackBuild end user, I have no issue with version "number" including a > letter. > > I would only have one for a hyphen (unicode 002d). > > Cheers, > Didier > > Le 22/08/2022 à 20:27, Brandon Pribula a écrit : > > I'm sure I've read about this before on this mailing list but I can't > > remember > > how we're supposed to deal with packages which have a letter in the version > > number such as > > > > package-name-2.7.1b > > > > IIRC letters are not allowed. So what is the solution? If the letter is > > removed > > then the user can't easily identify which version they're using. Could we > > just > > increase the build number? > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
