[Slackbuilds-users] Letter in version number

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Mon Aug 22 22:44:44 UTC 2022


As a SlackBuild end user, I have no issue with version "number" including a letter.

I would only have one for a hyphen (unicode 002d).

Cheers,
Didier

Le 22/08/2022 à 20:27, Brandon Pribula a écrit :
> I'm sure I've read about this before on this mailing list but I can't remember
> how we're supposed to deal with packages which have a letter in the version
> number such as
> 
> package-name-2.7.1b
> 
> IIRC letters are not allowed. So what is the solution? If the letter is removed
> then the user can't easily identify which version they're using. Could we just
> increase the build number?


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