Defining some official package naming standards

[Dave Korn]

On 14 August 2006 09:58, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Aug 12 23:13, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> The recent thread about remake suggests it would be a good idea to
>>> define some actual official package naming rules: exactly what things
>>> are considered valid for the name, version, and release fields in a
>>> package. 
>>> 
>>> I propose:
>>> 
>>> A package NVR identifier is name-version-release - three fields
>>> separated by '-' characters.
>>> 
>>> The release field MUST NOT contain a '-' character.
>>> 
>>> The version field MUST begin with a digit. Well-behaved parsers should
>>> allow it to contain '-' characters, but package creators should try to
>>> avoid this because it can lead to NVRs that look confusing.
>>> 
>>> The name field may contain '-' characters, EXCEPT that it MUST NOT
>>> contain a '-' character immediately followed by a digit.
>> 
>> Weird, but I always thought that the above is already state of the art.
> 
> The above is a set of rules distilled from current practice, but I don't
> think we've actually defined and documented this before.
> 
> Max.

  Mustn't the release field begin with a digit too?

  So, as this stands, VER='3.80+dbg-0.61' would be valid?  I don't suppose it
would play well with upset's automatic prev/curr detection.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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