On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:10:40 AM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote:
>
> On 27 January 2014 20:55, Jean-Pierre Flori <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday, January 26, 2014 6:12:38 PM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the quick reply! 
> >> 
> >> On 26 January 2014 17:02, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >> > I think we don't allow dashes in version numbers, only numbers and 
> dots. 
> >> > It 
> >> > might be version 01-26 of eclib-2014 etc... 
> >> > 
> > 
> > Yes, it seems dashes break our scripts. 
> > We have the smae problem with singular whose upstream version numbering 
> is 
> > 3-1-6 rather than the usual 3.1.6 
>
> Luckily in this case I can easily change the convention for eclib's 
> version numbering! 
>
> A more complicated version of our scripts should surely be able to 
> handle this given that we have a whole file dedicated to the text of 
> the package version? 
>
> Sure.
IIRC the regexp currently used to split out the package name from the 
package version looks for the last dash.
Maybe the first dash followed by a number would be more sensible.
But of course someone could always craft a package name which will defeat 
the regexp...

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