[Dev] [RFC] Voting about package naming for packages modified from Arch

Luke Shumaker lukeshu at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 31 22:39:50 GMT 2014


At Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:12:33 -0300,
coadde wrote:
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> I propose to add pkgver=${version}_gnu on all GNU software (packages
> built by us), not linux-libre packages only.
> 
> what is you opinion about it?

What!? No!

The _gnu on linux-libre is because -gnu is part of the version number
on Linux-libre releases[0].  Other GNU software doesn't do this, so
why would we?

[0]: Linux-libre official version numbers are in the format:
       ${version}.${patch}.${sublevel}-gnu${gnurel}

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Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker



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