We should really be standardizing around (at least recommending) Semantic
Versioning.  See: semver.org
On May 25, 2016 5:30 PM, "Seth Arnold" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:59:26AM -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > Looking at my 16.04 installation for more relevant data, the max length
> for
> > versions is 52, but the average is 12 and the median is 7. The output of
> > unfiltered dpkg -l starts the summary at column 129, despite displaying
> > only the name, version, arch, and summary.
> >
> > I don't think we can win if the goal is having meaningful output for
> > everything under 80 columns.
>
> Is there anything we can do to encourage version numbers to be tolerably
> short? It's a new world after all and we can suggest best practices.
>
> Thanks
>
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