Re: Q about policy; revision numbers
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:32:58PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> > Aaron Van Couwenberghe <vanco@sonic.net> writes:
> >
> > > Hey all -
> > >
> > > Is it legal, according to debian policy, to have package revisiion numbers
> > > in a form besides '-1 -2 -3 ....' etc? For example, suppose I have a package
> > > that will be taken from CVS every time, and I want to make the revision the
> > > date, '-990705' for example.
> >
> > If you do this, make sure that you consider that the year 2000 is just
> > around the corner. This would create a decrease in the revision
> > number.
No, it won't.
990705 < 20000101
Cordialement,
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