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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2017-09-23 09:47:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2017-10-08 17:46:05 +0200 |
| commit | 299ec8356227cf7420f3eff962eccf50db68f185 (patch) | |
| tree | d96c01ed733b772f996e41cda81abafb43ed23e6 | |
| parent | Promote "Available commands" from section to chapter. (diff) | |
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Clarify that version components can have arbitrary length.
Bug: 270108
| -rw-r--r-- | names.tex | 5 |
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@@ -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). |