Re: Processing of ardour_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1_amd64.changes

[Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>]

Hi Eric,

|--==> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki writes:

  EDR> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:14:34PM +0000, Archive Administrator wrote:
  >>ardour_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost
  >>along with the files:
  >>ardour_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1.dsc
  >>ardour_0.99.3+2.0beta12.orig.tar.gz
  >>ardour_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1.diff.gz
  >>ardour-doc_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1_all.deb
  >>ardour-session-exchange_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1_all.deb
  >>ardour-gtk_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1_amd64.deb
  >>ardour-gtk-dbg_0.99.3+2.0beta12-1_amd64.deb

  EDR> Why are these packages named like this? Why should ardour 2 have 0.99.3
  EDR> in its package names?

This is because the latest upstream releases have the suffix "betaXX"
after the version number (2.0), and when APT compares versions it
thinks that:

2.0 is less 2.0beta12

and will regard this as a downgrade. So naming the version 0.99.3+2.0beta12
will let upgrading when the final 2.0 version will be out.

Ciao!

Free