Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> For Deity at least is it VERY important that the version number of
> packages be exactly associated with the .deb file, there must never be two
> .debs with the same version that are not exactly the same. As soon as that
> happens it is no longer possible to tell which of the .debs are installed.
Indeed.
> Here is a possible example, for a time libc6 2.0.6 in main was was -0.1.
> What is someone had put an early release on debs.fuller also using -0.1,
> how is the person releasing into main to know that -0.1 is taken by the
> debs.fuller ppl?
There has been some discussion about other people supplying .deb's on this
list before. I think the general opinion was "let the others take care of
not conflicting with us". So, the people on debs.fuller should make sure
that the version numbers they use will not be taken by 'official' .deb
packages. I suggest using numbers like -0.0.1, depending on what kind of
version numbers are used by the package.
Remco
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