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Re: Whether Revisions should be required

On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Bill Mitchell wrote:

> [...]
> Yes, but _optionally_ having "-whatever", or even "-DIGIT", in the
> _middle_ of the package filename makes it difficult (impossible?) to
> parse.

Haven't we already established this?  Ian J. voiced the opinion the other 
day that filenames are generally not parseable anyway, and he may well be 
right - for example, plucked from a recent post on debian-devel, take:

   maelstrom-1.4.1-L6-1.deb

You know as well as I do that this is probably not parseable, even if you 
know that there is a revision field.  (No criticism meant to the 
maintainer of this package, BTW).  Yes, I know you'll say that it should 
be changed to

   maelstrom-1.4.1_L6-1.deb

I tend to agree with Andy Guy that we should try to avoid having to parse
filenames.

But what I'm saying really is: this isn't a new argument; voicing it
again isn't going to change Ian's mind, is it? 

Nikhil.