[csw-maintainers] [policy] Re: feature patching, and naming

[Peter Bonivart]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> Case in point: we cant use soft-XXXXp, because openssh decided to use
> "p" in their standard version string.

Why not? It doesn't have any technical functionality, it's just a
marker. If Yann saw it necessary he could just tack on "patched" there
to distinguish it from openssh's use of "p", like:

5.4p1patched,REV=2010.03.25

This would be harmless to both pkg-get and pkgutil but adding
something after REV would open up to weirdness once again. We finally
closed that, let's not open it again.

/peter