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

[Emilien Klein <emilien+debian@klein.st>]

Hi Gregor,

2012/1/5 gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>:
> 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.

The upstream author justifies the addition of "beta" to mean "be
aware, no guarantees, this could break". Until 0.0.7beta (the first
public release) all the releases have included the word beta. There
have never been versions 0.0.7, or 0.0.28 without the beta part. It is
thus highly probable that there will never be a version 0.0.32.
In the light of this, would you still use the "beta" part as suggested?

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

Thanks for the tip.
+Emilien