[bug#53494] [PATCH] gnu: utf-8-lineseparator: Update to cj7.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

jgart <jgart@dismail.de> skribis:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:17:48 +0100 Liliana Marie Prikler 
> <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I know this ought to have been caught by whoever reviewed the package
>> back then, but is "cj" really a relevant part of the version?

I overlooked that bit; “cj3” doesn’t look like a version number, indeed.

> Sorry, I was under the impression that all packages did not have to
> follow a particular versioning scheme such as SemVer or CalVer. Is that
> part of official Guix Policy that I can read somewhere?

There’s no policy regarding semver & co: packages can do what they want.

However, the Guix CLI assumes “normal” version numbers, meaning a string
that starts with dot-separated digits.  ‘guix upgrade’, for instance,
compares version strings to determine what’s being upgraded, so those
strings have to be “normal” version strings.

jgart, is “cj7” the version string upstream?  In that case, can we
change it to “7” or “7.cj” or something along these lines?

Ludo’.