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Lenght of version components [was: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008]
>>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> PMS: Are versions allowed to have more than 8 digits?
> -----------------------------------------------------

> specifically to ask the package maintainers with extremely
> long PVs whether they were needed and to test the impact of
> extending versionator.eclass. The involved packages:

> sys-process/fuser-bsd
> sys-apps/net-tools
> sys-apps/gradm
> net-im/ntame
> media-video/captury
> media-libs/libcaptury
> media-libs/capseo
> sys-block/btrace
> www-apache/mod_depends
> net-wireless/rt2500
> sys-fs/unionfs

You may add app-emacs/limit and app-emacs/mu-cite to this list.
Currently we limit ourselves to 8 digits for them, but both upstream
tarballs are named in the infamous YYYYMMDDHHMM format.

Ulrich
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