A subset of council members decided today that multiple version suffixes are illegal in the tree pending further notice. This decission can be appealed at the next Council meeting. If there is sufficient public demand, an earlier meeting can be held. This decission has been made to prevent sufficient precedence for unilateral changes to the tree structure. So far the following package versions are considered illegal: media-viode/mplayer-1.0_rc2_pre20070321-r4 media-video/transcode-1.0.3_rc2_p20070310-r1 An illegal version specification of media-sound/alsa-driver has already been removed from the tree. I would like to ask the affected package maintainers to move these versions to sane version specifications as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for this.