We should really be standardizing around (at least recommending) Semantic Versioning. See: <a href="http://semver.org">semver.org</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On May 25, 2016 5:30 PM, "Seth Arnold" <<a href="mailto:seth.arnold@canonical.com">seth.arnold@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:59:26AM -0300, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > Looking at my 16.04 installation for more relevant data, the max length for > versions is 52, but the average is 12 and the median is 7. The output of > unfiltered dpkg -l starts the summary at column 129, despite displaying > only the name, version, arch, and summary. > > I don't think we can win if the goal is having meaningful output for > everything under 80 columns. Is there anything we can do to encourage version numbers to be tolerably short? It's a new world after all and we can suggest best practices. Thanks -- Snapcraft mailing list <a href="mailto:Snapcraft@lists.ubuntu.com">Snapcraft@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft</a> </blockquote></div>