Re: How should ambiguous package specifications be handled?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> skribis:

> Christopher Baines 写道：

[...]

>> Given there do seem to be ways of avoiding these ambiguous package
>> specifications, would it be helpful to have a lint warning that
>> identifies a package as being ambiguous (as it shares the name and
>> version with another package)?
>
> That's a good idea at the very least.  I don't think such duplication
> is ever justified.

I agree, a ‘lint’ warning would be nice.

However, I think that tools like Cuirass and the Data Service must be
able to cope with duplicates; they should not consider name+version as a
unique key for packages.

Ludo’.