Bug 435954

Summary:	Portage: please lift the 'package name must not end with hyphen-version' requirement
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	174536

Description Michał Górny archtester

2012-09-22 22:17:48 UTC

Please lift the unnecessary strictness in accepted versions since portage can handle package names ending with a thingie looking-like-a-version fine. This will allow us to lift the rule in the future.

Citing the robustness principle[1]:

  Be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept

Thus, I believe portage should not limit accepted names to the letter of the PMS; instead, repoman should warn when committing names not conforming to it.

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle