[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Forbidding a double separator "-" in build/parseReqs.c is not always legitimate (#369)

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Wed Dec 13 07:08:16 UTC 2017


Double-ehm... shouldn't reply anything before two cups of coffee in the morning.

The dash is the *the* separator charactor of name, version and release in rpm, parsing from end of the string. And because of that, a double dash is simply never legitimate in release or version. And dpkg is mostly the same (http://www.fifi.org/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-versions.html) with a couple of exceptions, maybe this is about those.

In any case, a tool claiming to convert between package formats simply has to know about the package format versioning, that's it's job and if it fails to do it then it's a bug in alien, not in the package formats.



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