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Re: Advice on packaging a PHP application (ITP for Shaarli)



On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:13:44 -0500, Emilien Klein wrote:

> - The current version number is "0.0.32 beta" (including space) as
> written on the web page and in the source code, and "0.0.32beta" in
> the zipfile. As the version number in Debian can't contain spaces,
> would you use "0.0.32beta", or even just drop the "beta" part and use
> "0.0.32"?

I'd go with 0.0.32~beta or similar (assuming that there will be a
0.0.32 release later) since ~ sorts before everything else.

You can play around with "dpkg --compare-versions" to see the effects
of version numbers.
 
Cheers,
gregor

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