On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:24:29AM +0200, Mich?le Garoche wrote: > Le 20 avr. 2004, ? 1:13, Daniel Macks a ?crit : > >On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:59:41AM +0200, Mich?le Garoche wrote: > >> > >>Could it be possible to note in chapter reference, for field package > >>that the name should begin with a letter and that the version could > >>not have letters at beginning ? > > > >I think the second part is recommended but not required by Debian > >Policy (see the link from Epoch) but it sure makes things less > >confusing! Any input from other admin-folks on a policy statement? > > Quoted at the end of paragraph 5.6.11 > <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f- > Version> > > [Quote] > Note that the purpose of epochs is to allow us to leave behind mistakes > in version numbering, and to cope with situations where the version > numbering scheme changes. It is not intended to cope with version > numbers containing strings of letters which the package management > system cannot interpret (such as ALPHA or pre-), or with silly > orderings (the author of this manual has heard of a package whose > versions went 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1, 2.1, 2.2, 2 and so forth). > [/Quote]
I interpret that to mean Epoch is not designed just keep incrementing as a hack to get arbitrary versions to sort correctly (for example to use 1:2.0 to make 2.0 be higher than 2.0pre1). It doesn't seem to forbid versions "a1", "a2", "b1", etc. which *do* sort correctly. > and for upstream version at the beginning of the same paragraph > [Quote] > The upstream_version may contain only alphanumerics[28] and the > characters . + - : (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon) and should start > with a digit. > [/Quote] That's the exact sentence on which I based my comment, in particular the "should start with" being weaker (a suggestion) than "may contain only" (a requirement). The description of the sorting alogrithm does not require a leading digit, nor does the parsing alogrithm for %f (for full-package and .deb names) and other things that handle this information. See for example Fink's SourceForge Tracker bugs #766799. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
