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Re: Whether Revisions should be required

On Fri, 8 Mar 1996 eichin@cygnus.com wrote:

> >> 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 
> 
> What is unparsable about that? Either I'm missing something, or all of
> you are :-) So let's go through that example...
> [...]
> Now, let's strip off the version:
> bash$ echo maelstrom-1.4.1-L6-1 | sed 's/^.*-\([0-9]*\)$/\1/'
> 1

Sorry, my regexps aren't up to that :-).  The basic trouble is, you've got
   maelstrom-1.4.1-L6
Now, how do you decide if this package is called maelstrom or 
maelstrom-1.4.1?  They're both perfectly legal.  OK, you can make 
arguments, but I think you could easily invent a counterexample.

I'm getting bored with discussions on what can or can't be parsed, so 
I'll leave it there.  CF. Bill Mitchell's posts for plenty of discussion 
on this.

Nikhil.