Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
PMS currently has the following:
The package manager must not impose fixed limits upon the number of
version components. No integer part of a version specification may
contain more than eight digits. Package managers should indicate or
reject any version that is invalid according to these rules.
Historically, Portage had weird bugs for excessively long version
parts, especially when leading zeroes were involved, although as far as
I'm aware it's clean with arbitrary lengths now. Paludis is clean (and
issues a QA notice for violations), but portage-utils fails the
whole version handling thing in an epic fashion.
could you please fill a bug about portage-utils on our bugzilla?
Given this, do we still need that restriction in place? There're quite
a few violations in the tree.
I think the issue could be addressed and the limitation relaxed.
lu
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