[aur-general] VCS package guidelines

[Rafael Fontenelle]

2017-03-08 17:53 GMT-03:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:

> Hi,
>
> my understanding is, that if possible, it should look like this
>
> 1.2.r3.gabcdef7
>
> and not alternatively
>
> 1.2_r3_gabcdef7
>
> or
>
> 1.2_3_gabcdef7
>
> A maintainer disagrees:
>
> "The pkgver extracts on the wiki are not there as strict rules that you
> need to comply with, but simply as examples that produce good, incrementing
> pkgvers."
>
> It's not important what AUR package I'm talking about, I just want to
> ensure that I'm not mistaken.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>

Just add info to this thread, I don't know about "_" as separator, but some
packages in official repositories use "+". e.g. gedit 3.22.0+4+g2c70ccb86-1

Best regards,
Rafael Fontenelle