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Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm



On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 10:57:12AM +0100, jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> The policy on version numbers for non-maintainer releases prevents this.
> If the latest maintainer release was 1.1, the first non-maintainer release
> will be 1.1-1, whereas the next maintainer release will be 1.2; thus, to
> dinstall the new maintainer release is newer than the non-maintainer
> release and it will happily install the new maintainer release.

On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 01:05:26PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl writes:
> > will be 1.1-1,
> 
> Actually, isn't it 1-1.1?

Hmmm. My example was flawed; it should have had debian revisions separated
by a hypen.
Let's try it again:
- Latest maintainer release: 1.2.3-1
- Non-maintainer followup:   1.2.3-1.1
- New maintainer release:    1.2.3-2

HTH,
Ray
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