[patch] Straighten out specification of integer version components.

0001-Straighten-out-specification-of-integer-version-comp.patch (text/plain), 1.77 KB, created by Ulrich Müller on 2017-10-29 11:50:46 UTC

From 0a2577bd7ac038a2b6849a40bc0a05fe3d535bd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <[e-mail]>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:22:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Straighten out specification of integer version components.

Reported-by: John R. Graham <[e-mail]>
Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635340
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 names.tex | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/names.tex b/names.tex
index d00088e..7bf9475 100644
--- a/names.tex
+++ b/names.tex
@@ -61,16 +61,16 @@ upon the length of any component. Package managers should indicate or reject any
 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).
+(an unsigned integer, followed by zero or more dot-prefixed unsigned integers).
 
 This may optionally be followed by one of \t{[a-z]} (a lowercase letter).
 
-This may be followed by zero or more of the suffixes \t{_alpha}, \t{_beta}, \t{_pre},
-\t{_rc} or \t{_p}, which themselves may be followed by an optional integer. Suffix and integer
+This may be followed by zero or more of the suffixes \t{_alpha}, \t{_beta}, \t{_pre}, \t{_rc}
+or \t{_p}, each of which may optionally be followed by an unsigned integer. Suffix and integer
 count as separate version components.
 
-This may optionally be followed by the suffix \t{-r} followed immediately by an integer (the
-``revision number''). If this suffix is not present, it is assumed to be \t{-r0}.
+This may optionally be followed by the suffix \t{-r} followed immediately by an unsigned integer
+(the ``revision number''). If this suffix is not present, it is assumed to be \t{-r0}.
 
 \section{Version Comparison}
 
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2.14.3