[Slackbuilds-users] Letter in version number

[fourtysixandtwo]

There's actually quite a few slackbuilds that have versions ending in
a letter(179, about half of which include a year or git commits) so it
is allowed, just not very common.

Cheers

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 2:45 PM Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr> wrote:
>
> 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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