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Re: New pangzero version available - going to break current one with new SDL-perl



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Tobias Leich wrote:

> I dont get what you mean.
> From a perl view 1.401 is 1.401000 and 1.4.1 is 1.400100 and 1.5 is
> 1.500000.

I found this article about version numbers in perl:

http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/369/version-numbers-should-be-boring/

My reaction is: wow thats a lot of complexity.

Using the dotted-integer form of version numbers should be enough as
long as they remain dotted in the tarball filename, since that is the
main place Debian versions interact with upstream versions.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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