>>>>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Michał Górny wrote: >> What is currently not allowed are package names ending with a hyphen >> followed by digits only (as in your above example). This seems to be >> completely arbitrary, and we could remove this limitation, even with >> existing dependency syntax.
> I doubt we can. Nobody could tell me a technical reason why this limitation exists. Why should "foo-1" be forbidden for PN if "foo-1a" is allowed? > And we just extended it into repository names, didn't we? Indeed, looks like I've missed this. But it shouldn't be a problem, if we loosen the spec for package names, the one for repository names just follows it. Ulrich
