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diff --git a/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn b/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn index 74fdefe..913fd43 100644 --- a/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn +++ b/specs/spf-2.0/metadata.mdwn @@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ and minus signs, and periods. Names must be at least two characters long and must start with either a letter or a digit. (A regular expression for this is `[a-z0-9][a-z0-9+.-]+`.) -Source package names may not begin with the reserved string "src-". +Source package names may not begin with the reserved string "src-". *This +limitation is expected to be removed in a future draft of this version of this +Source Package Format.* Binary Package Names [bin-name] ------------------------------- @@ -117,11 +119,14 @@ and minus signs, and periods. Names must be at least two characters long and must start with either a letter or a digit. (A regular expression for this is `[a-z0-9][a-z0-9+.-]+`.) -Binary package names may not begin with the reserved string "src-". +Binary package names may not begin with the reserved string "src-". *This +limitation is expected to be removed in a future draft of this version of this +Source Package Format.* A binary package clean name is a binary package name with all plus and minus signs and periods removed. No two binary packages built from the same source -package may have the same clean name. +package may have the same clean name. *This limitation is expected to be +removed in a future draft of this version of this Source Package Format.* Source Package Version Identifier [src-ver] @@ -129,7 +134,14 @@ Source Package Version Identifier [src-ver] In general, the syntax of source package version identifiers is: - <pkgver>[+sip<siprev>][-<pkgrev>][+<dist>~<distrev>][~bpu<distnum>+<bpurev>] + [<epoch>:]<pkgver>[+sip<siprev>][-<pkgrev>][+<dist>~<distrev>][~bpu<distnum>+<bpurev>] + +`<epoch>` should almost always be omitted, in which case it is effectively zero. +It may be used when the upstream version numbering scheme changes or when one or +more binary packages are migrated to a different source package with a different +upstream version numbering scheme. It must be a string of one or more digits, +the first of which must be greater than or equal to `1`. (A regular expression +for this is `[1-9][0-9]*`.) `<pkgver>` is the version of the original upstream package or the native package. It may only consist of lowercase Latin letters, digits, periods, |