Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Treat pkgrel more similarly to pkgver

On 04/06/18 06:01, Luke Shumaker wrote:

From: Luke Shumaker

This is perfectly fine with libalpm; it was only makepkg that was more strict with pkgrel than pkgver.

Further, the former error message about invalid pkgrel formats claimed that pkgrel was a "decimal", which would mean that `1.1 == 1.10`. This is not the case; alpm parses pkgrel as a version, not as a decimal.

Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker ---

I am still very much against going beyond x.y for pkgrel. In fact, I only begrudgingly accept the need for .y in there. A