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

>> 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,

But so far you can split P into PN and PV at the last hyphen, because
it is guaranteed that PV contains no hyphens.

Trouble starts if hyphens in PV are allowed.

Ulrich

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