From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D34C1396D0 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C865EE0F32; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A75FFE0F32 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oystercatcher.gentoo.org (unknown [IPv6:2a01:4f8:202:4333:225:90ff:fed9:fc84]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E57AB33BEF4 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A615D909D for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:05:22 +0000 (UTC) From: "Ulrich Müller" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Ulrich Müller" Message-ID: <1507477565.299ec8356227cf7420f3eff962eccf50db68f185.ulm@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/pms:master commit in: / X-VCS-Repository: proj/pms X-VCS-Files: names.tex X-VCS-Directories: / X-VCS-Committer: ulm X-VCS-Committer-Name: Ulrich Müller X-VCS-Revision: 299ec8356227cf7420f3eff962eccf50db68f185 X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 16:05:22 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: efb270e8-d871-4adf-ae99-b7d530d859ef X-Archives-Hash: 298ac237c7f236fcf6778c3d22a2fa9b commit: 299ec8356227cf7420f3eff962eccf50db68f185 Author: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> AuthorDate: Sat Sep 23 07:47:59 2017 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> CommitDate: Sun Oct 8 15:46:05 2017 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?id=299ec835 Clarify that version components can have arbitrary length. Bug: 270108 names.tex | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/names.tex b/names.tex index 6767c55..15c720a 100644 --- a/names.tex +++ b/names.tex @@ -55,8 +55,9 @@ hyphen, a dot or a plus sign. \section{Version Specifications} \label{sec:version-spec} -The package manager must not impose fixed limits upon the number of version components. Package -managers should indicate or reject any version that is invalid according to these rules. +The package manager must neither impose fixed limits upon the number of version components, nor +upon the length of any component. Package managers should indicate or reject any version that is +invalid according to the rules below. A version starts with the number part, which is in the form \t{[0-9]+(\textbackslash.[0-9]+)*} (a positive integer, followed by zero or more dot-prefixed positive integers).