what's with the commas in the cyrus-imapd release tag?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 21:03 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:09:53PM -0400, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> >   The only suggestion I have, sadly, is to not use commas in the version
> > or release tags.
> >   How about the pipe character?
> 
> That will be a big pain. I think that colon ':' may be safe but
> underscore '_' may be another candidate.  This needs some thought and
> checking.  Does not seem to be many possible candidates.
> 

: is a bad idea - it's used to find epochs frequently in a completely
specified epoch-included version string

normally it's

epoch:name-ver-rel.arch

sometimes it is

name.arch epoch:ver-rel

-sv