[aur-general] VCS package guidelines

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:00:52 -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
>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

Then I'm seemingly mistaken. IMO it's odd, if there are many
variations. It has a Debian/Ubuntu appeal, if packages have a
different version/release formatting ;).