Re: Package beta versions of teTeX

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Christoph Martin wrote:

>  > Thomas Esser has announced that there will be no stable releases of
teTeX
>  > in 2000 and 2001. I think we should package the beta versions he
>  > releases. If we would package the recent beta version we will get rid of
>  > tetex-nonfree and the RC bug on tetex-base.
>  > 
>  > What's your opinion on packaging the beta versions?
>  > 
> 
> I agree. The recent versions are:
> 
> teTeX-src-beta-20000807.tar.gz
> teTeX-texmf-beta-20000804.tar.gz
> teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20000804.tar.gz
> 
> The debian version should be something like -1.0.beta.20000807 !?

No, it should be something like 1.0.2+20000807 because (look at the
second one):

$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.2 lt 1.0.beta.20000807 && echo "lower"
lower
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.3 lt 1.0.beta.20000807 && echo "lower"
lower


$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.2 lt 1.0.2+20000807 && echo "lower"
lower
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.3 lt 1.0.2+20000807 && echo "lower"


> C

cu,
Adrian

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