GNU bug report logs - #19219
Package names with digits following dashes

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Message #16 received at 19219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 19219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>,
 request <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19219: Package names with digits following dashes
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:36:26 +0100

Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> I had the same issue when trying to create a package named
> 'rxvt-unicode-256-color'.  I have tried to fix
> ‘package-name->name+version’ by matching the last hyphen and check if
> the next character is a number.

Sounds like a reasonable approach (better than what I submitted), but we
would need test for the various corner cases.  Could you augment the
test that’s in tests/utils.scm?

> The result was a fail attempt to rebuild the earth:

This is because everything depends on (guix build utils).

But we’re right in time to make this change in ‘core-updates’.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

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