Re: hugs - a haskell interpreter

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Gergely Madarasz wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm about to make a debian package of hugs, which is a haskell
> interpreter... Here is the licence. I assume that according to our
> policies hugs can go into non-free. Am I right ?

Yes.

> There is one more problem... according to the homepage, this is still a
> beta version, but there is no other information on version (like beta1 or 
> beta-971114). How should I version it? Perhaps 1.4beta ?
> Or should I add the date of the source download like this:
> hugs-1.4beta.19971114?

If they release newer versions of 1.4beta without incrementing some
version digit, you should use 1.4beta.19971114. Otherwise, 1.4beta (or
1.4b) is fine.

> What should happen when the final release arrives ?

You'll have to use epochs then (1:1.4) since dpkg considers (1.4 <
1.4beta).


Thanks,

Chris

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