Re: A new tkdesk for unstable
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On Thu, 7 May 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> The version number needs a bit of explanation. According to the
> upstream author, this is a "pre-release" of 1.0. Now, since the upstream
> author has some slightly unusual ideas about version numbering, "1.0"
> comes _after_ "1.0-beta-4". This may not seem unusual at first, but
> dpkg considers version "1.0" to come before version "1.0b4". So, I've
> given this version the name "1.0p1" for "1.0, pre-release 1". When the
> upstream author decides that tkdesk 1.0 is not just pre-released, but
> actually released (the upstream author may have already decided this and
> has simply neglected to update his webpage), if there is new source to
> upload it will be called version "1.0r".
IMHO, the gnuplot approach is something better:
gnuplot current version is "3.5beta6.340-5", which will allow the
released version to be just "3.6".
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