Re: Package name separators
> I honestly can't recall when the last time was that i saw a hyphen
> character in the version designation of a software package (i.e., the
> source tarball). Oh wait ... i think jed
> (http://mit.space.edu/~davis/jed.html) has hyphens.
I counted the available packages with hyphenated versions on my debian
system, and there are 43 source packages with such versions, out of a
total of 3509 source packages (which are distributed as 5087 binary
packages), slightly more than 1%. [The actual list is attached at the
end of the message.]
I'm not sure where all of these version numbers came from, but many
appear to be the real "upstream" version number (as opposed to something
concocted by the packager).
I guess my question is, why *not* do it (choose something more friendly
than a hyphen as a separator)?
Cheers,
-Miles
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