Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 06:31:38PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: >Hi, > >In order to manage package file name length below 90 and to have sane >screen for package management, may I suggest to recommend some limits >(for lintian check etc.): > > * package name string should be less than 40 characters. >

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > ["Followup-To:" nach gmane.linux.debian.devel.general gesetzt.] > Philipp Kern schrieb: > > ["Followup-To:" header set to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general.] > > On 2011-04-23, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:06:39PM +0100,

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-24 Thread Carsten Hey
* Philipp Kern [2011-04-24 10:23 +]: > (OTOH it needs to be greater than +squeeze then, so +debXY won't do.) It needs to be greater than "+squeeze", smaller than "." and must not contain "-". /usr/bin/ascii prints: |Dec Hex | 43 2B + | 44 2C , | 45 2D - | 46 2E . ",debXY" would do, but would

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 03:06:39PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in versions. > They aren't ordered, This seems like an odd reason to forbid them; should one also forbid strings such as 'pre', 'rc', 'lenny', 'squeeze' in version numbers al

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ben Hutchings (23/04/2011): > > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in > > versions. They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly > > which commit the snapshot was can be included in the changelog. > > I'll be happy t

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (23/04/2011): > I would like to see policy forbid the use of commit hashes in > versions. They aren't ordered, and the information about exactly > which commit the snapshot was can be included in the changelog. I'll be happy to second any wording you could come up with on that topi

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

2011-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 18:31 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: [...] > === version, strings longer than 30 (unique ones) === > 0.9.15+post20100705+gitb3aa806-2 > 0.0.0+git20091215.9ec1da8a-2+b2 > 1.0.0~alpha3~git20090817.r1.349dba6-2 > 1:2.5.0~alpha4+svn20091009-1+b2 > 2.1.14+2.6.32.13-201005151340-1 > 1:2.2