Bug 282303

Summary:	Limit version numbers to 18 digits
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Devmanual	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Proposed patch for ebuild-writing/file-format/text.xml

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2009-08-22 12:52:55 UTC

Ebuilds should be limited to <= 18 digit version numbers, otherwise there will be breakage. See rationale in bug 270108, especially bug 270108 comment #2.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2009-08-22 12:53:45 UTC

Created attachment 201930 [details, diff]
Proposed patch for ebuild-writing/file-format/text.xml

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2009-12-19 21:56:08 UTC

Any objections if I commit this myself?

Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-12-19 23:31:40 UTC

Looks sane and noone else from team said anything against it for 4 months. So feel allowed to go ahead :]

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2009-12-22 13:58:07 UTC

Thanks scarabeus and halcy0n.