non-maint. libc5 version number (was: Re: Uploaded menu 1.5-5.1 (source i386) to erlangen)
Andreas has discussed this with me and I agreed. But I notice:
> Changes:
> menu (1.5-5.1) experimental; urgency=low
> .
> * non maintainer libc5/experimental release by Andreas Jellinghaus
This would mean the libc5 version is compared as "newer" by dpkg
than the libc6 version (1.5-5).
So, I thought: maybe, when we make special libc5 releases
of packages, we should decrease the debian-revision by one,
and add a ".1" (so that in this case, we would have: 1.5-4.1).
This would make dpkg do the right thing[1], but it would look somewhat
funny for the users, Andreas' libc5 release of menu realy is
menu_1.5-5 for libc5, and not menu_1.5-4.
What do other think? (I remember the migration-to libc6 text saying
that _maintainers_ of libc6 packages that make a libc5 release should
always make a libc6 release right after, for just the same reason. But
that doesn't really apply here, as it was a non-maintainer release
to begin with).
Anyway, thanks, Andreas, for providing the libc5 version.
[1] Well, I believe kde now depends on "menu (>=1.5-5)", so it would
go wrong in this specific case. But that would mean kde's dependancy
should be changed to "menu (>>1.5-4)". (Andreas maintains kde, so
that is no problem here).
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