Non-integer pkgrels... why?

Xyne · 2009-03-24 06:50:31

I'm working on different scripts/projects right now and I've written functions to compare package versions in both perl and bash (following the specification in "man pacman").
They were both working fine and there I was, happily coding this and that when suddenly one of my tests fell over and choked on its own vomit. After my initial "oh ffs, what now, that shouldn't happen" reaction, I spent a few minutes printing and grepping and finally found the issue:

core/libelf-0.8.10-3.1
core/ncurses-5.7-2.1
extra/openjdk6-1.5-0.1
extra/xf86-video-unichrome-0.2.7-0.1
extra/opal-3.4.4-2.1
extra/qt3-doc-3.3.8-1.2
extra/libwebkit-1.1.0-0.41121
extra/vim-7.2.65-1.1
extra/vconfig-1.9-1.1
extra/libdatrie-0.1.2-1.1
extra/libxml2-2.7.3-1.1
extra/gimageview-0.2.27-2.1
extra/alltray-0.70-1.1
extra/qiv-2.1pre12-1.1
community/lib32-lzo2-2.02-3.1
community/dguitar-0.5.8-1
community/fail2ban-0.8.3-1
community/flock-2.0.3-1.1
community/librsync-0.9.7-3.1
community/xmms-volnorm-0.8.3-3.1
community/lib32-libgpg-error-1.6-1.1
community/gnonlin-0.10.10-1.1
community/unace-2.5-5.1
community/haskell-x11-xft-0.3-1.1
community/ucl-1.03-3.1
community/lib32-libsm-1.1.0-1.1
community/libgalago-0.5.2-2.1
community/ogle-gui-0.9.2-3.1
community/libxnvctrl-1.16-1.1
community/lib32-opencdk-0.6.6-1.1
community/lib32-libgl-7.2-1.1
community/plib-1.8.5-1.1

Please please please tell me that non-integer package releases are bugs. How can you possibly have a "tenth" of a release? Do I need to file bug reports for all of those?

Allan · 2009-03-24 06:57:04

These are used when you want to rebuild for one architecture only.

Edit - surely you have read this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR … g_the_Repo

Right at the end of that section...

Xyne · 2009-03-24 06:59:09

*sigh*
Thanks, Allan.
*walks off to modify some functions*

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#1 2009-03-24 06:50:31

Non-integer pkgrels... why?

#2 2009-03-24 06:57:04

Re: Non-integer pkgrels... why?

#3 2009-03-24 06:59:09

Re: Non-integer pkgrels... why?

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