On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:16:31 -0500 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:45:14PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...] > > > > I'm OK with that. Since choosing the reserved characters is not a > > technical decision, maybe we could poll users? > > I think we should poll a big list of packages and see which characters > are most safe to use. > > The question is: which big list? Debian's? > > When debian adopted multiarch they had a small internal fight about what characters to use, since there are only so many usable characters. IIRC, a long version of a debian package could be 1:6.3.2-1+bpo1~henry. I don't remember if their sorting takes into account ascii order or their own internal order, but I'm pretty sure they only allow using each character once. http://www.fifi.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-versions.html https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/first.en.html#namever https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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