On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:41:43 -0500, Emilien Klein wrote: > > 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. Interesting versioning scheme :) > In the light of this, would you still use the "beta" part as suggested? No, I just went by my usual understanding of beta. If 'beta' for this project is just a meaningless suffix, then my suggestion with '~beta' doesn't make sense, and either "0.0.32beta" (if you want to keep the same name) or just "0.0.32" should both be ok. There's also no strict policy about versions in Debian, usually the combination of following upstream + using common sense + knowing how dpkg sorts versions is fine. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key ID: 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Schmetterlinge: Wir hatten Gräber, ihr hattet Siege
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