On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Semantic versioning is a new fad.
I believe it's already been there for a while. It just didn't become a standard soon. > Certain upstreams still think that > 5.10 is a lower version that 5.2. Perl used to be notorious for doing > this, but they've partially changed in some places but not others. > > The rules are a mess because they need to a reasonable job of dealing > with all the crazy. But these rules may no longer be applicable with the current packages. Besides I think we can just enforce using 3 digits on versioning ebuilds when we see a package that uses both 2 digits and 3 digits.
