| Subject: | poll: package-specs and version numbers |
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| From: | Marc Espie <espie@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:50:10 UTC |
| Newsgroups: | fa.openbsd.tech |
Current documentation says: The version part starts at the first digit that follows a `-', and goes on up to the following `-', or to the end of the package name, if no flavor modifier is present. It is highly recommended that all packages have a version number. I'd like to modify that to make the version number *mandatory*. In the worst case, an artificial version of 0 would be okay. The main reason for that is that the current fuzzy spec allows people to build packages with really weird names, and then they figure out later that they did it wrong. With `stronger' specs guarantees, I can add more checks in the pkg_* code (for package names and for dependency specifications) that will give out more explicit diagnostics for wrong package names. Any objections ? |
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