Ryan Mulligan
Ryan Mulligan
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/77908
The packages are mixed up at the repology.org level, either nixpkgs should rename the package or repology should split them. The former seems better to me.
Fine with me; this is definitely not a high priority to me currently.
Looks like this is still an issue. @matthiasbeyer up for renaming it now?
There are lot of different version formats in attr paths. Here's a list of ones I know about: | attrpath format | example | version represented | | --- |...
There is a [policy for naming the files](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-versioning), but not the attr paths.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/an-attrpath-format-policy-proposal/235
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/17625
I agree with zowoq, this is better implemented as part of a fetcher and it can fail at build time.
@FRidh Is this what you are proposing? 1. Assume semantic versioning if the version matches `X.X.X` 2. Make PRs to merge commits onto the `release-18.03` branch where the change is...