Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-31 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-10-31 12:15, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 31.10.2017 um 12:21 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >> Not sure what distros you're referring to.  Of the 58467 packages >> in Fedora 26, 7822 are using epochs. > > I'm expecting as much since it was rpm that introduced the epoch IIRC (I think > an earlier

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 31.10.2017 um 12:21 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: Not sure what distros you're referring to. Of the 58467 packages in Fedora 26, 7822 are using epochs. I'm expecting as much since it was rpm that introduced the epoch IIRC (I think an earlier approach was using a "serial number"). Debian is

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-31 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-10-31 05:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 31 11:06, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Am 30.10.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Jon Turney: >>> "everyone" != "everyone, ignoring people who disagree with me" >> >> I think this is an unfair summary of my position. >> >>> If you think epochs are a bad idea, you

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 31 11:06, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 30.10.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Jon Turney: > > "everyone" != "everyone, ignoring people who disagree with me" > > I think this is an unfair summary of my position. > > > If you think epochs are a bad idea, you need to give reasons, not just > > pretend there

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Am 30.10.2017 um 16:58 schrieb Jon Turney: "everyone" != "everyone, ignoring people who disagree with me" I think this is an unfair summary of my position. If you think epochs are a bad idea, you need to give reasons, not just pretend there is no debate. I was strictly talking about those

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-30 Thread Jon Turney
On 27/10/2017 20:26, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, there is an additional problem in

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-30 Thread Jon Turney
On 27/10/2017 19:47, Ken Brown wrote: A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, there is an additional problem in reading filenames

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2017-10-27 14:26, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form >> e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these >> correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, >> there is an additional

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-27 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-10-27 13:26, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form >> e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these >> correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, >> there is an additional

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-27 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/27/2017 3:26 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, there is an additional problem in

Re: [[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-27 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form > e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these > correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, > there is an additional problem in reading filenames containing colons. >

[[PATCH setup] 0/3] Prepare for colons in version numbers

2017-10-27 Thread Ken Brown
A future version of setup might allow version numbers of the form e:v-r, where is an epoch. Currently setup doesn't parse these correctly when reading installed.db. In case ScanFindVisitor is used, there is an additional problem in reading filenames containing colons. The reading is done by