Re: [Gnu-arch-users] category version limited to digits and dots

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 11:59:16AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 18:24, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> > Why is there a limitation in arch that the project version must only
> > contain digits and dots?
> 
> IIRC it was for sorting. Or maybe just to get sorting in line with what
> humans expect?

Specifically so that 'tla get category--branch' will fetch the latest
version. The value of this is somewhat questionable, but that's why.

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