On 03.11.2016 [19:37:41 +0000], Ian Jackson wrote:
> Nish Aravamudan writes ("DEP14 policy for two dots"):
> > [ Raphael, apologies for sending twice, had a error in the headers in
> > the prior one ]
> >
> > Not sure exactly where to ask this better than debian-devel, but I am
> > working on an importer for the Ubuntu Server team which parses published
> > versions of source packages in Debian and Ubuntu. I ran into an issue
> > today where there is a published version of src:pcre3 with version
> > '8.30..2'. `man git-check-ref-format` says that reference names "cannot
> > have two consecutive dots .. anywhere." DEP14 specifies appropriate
> > substitutions for : and ~, but it seems like .. should also be accounted
> > for so I can correctly tag historic versions?
>
> Urk. How exciting. I think we may need a more general escaping
> scheme for these and other weirdnesses.
>
> I have an interest as dgit uses DEP-14 tag escaping. I have CC'd the
> vcs-pkg list.
Thank you, I should have thought of that!
> tl;dr: I think we should insert `#' characters as needed.
Thank you as well for your excellent analysis of the options. I think
the proposal
> Proposed rule:
>
> Insert "#":
> - between each pair of adjacent dots
> - after any trailing dot
> - before any leading dot
>
> Examples:
> 8.30..2 => 8.30.#.2
> 8.30. => 8.30.#
> .42 => #.42
is very reasonable and I assume could be added to DEP14 itself?
Presuming broader agreement, of course. For the purpose of 'ubuntu/'
tagging in our tool, we would adopt the same rule.
Thank,s
Nish
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Nishanth Aravamudan
Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
