Packages with unusual (wrong?) tarball names (db, xemacs)
Dr. Volker Zell
Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com
Tue Oct 4 06:52:00 GMT 2005
>>>>> Max Bowsher writes:
> The (adhoc?) standard for package file names, which for the most part
> is followed, is:
> NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.tar.bz2 <-- for binary packages
> NAME-VERSION-RELEASE-src.tar.bz2 <-- for source packages
> VERSION and RELEASE should not contain '-' characters.
> NAME is allowed to contain '-' characters, but NAME should not contain
> a '-'
> character immediately followed by a digit, because this would look too
> much like the start of VERSION.
> There are a few packages in the distribution which do not follow these
> rules:
> !!! ./xemacs/xemacs-mule-sumo xemacs-mule-sumo-2005-05-05-1-src.tar.bz2
> !!! ./xemacs/xemacs-mule-sumo xemacs-mule-sumo-2005-05-05-1.tar.bz2
> !!! ./xemacs/xemacs-sumo xemacs-sumo-2005-05-05-1-src.tar.bz2
> !!! ./xemacs/xemacs-sumo xemacs-sumo-2005-05-05-1.tar.bz2
> ^^^ These packages' version fields contain illegal '-' characters.
In this case the version field is a date.
> I'm not aware of any serious problems being created by these
> discrepancies, but they are odd.
If there are no problems, I would like to leave it as is.
> The db packages are unlikely to need any future update, so those might
> need to stay as they are, but the xemacs packages could be fixed next
> time they are updated.
> Max.
Ciao
Volker
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