Re: Maintaing an aptable archive with a potato - woody mixture
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:35:56 -0800 (PST), "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry"
<shaleh@valinux.com> wrote:
>On 02-Nov-2000 Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:11:10 -0800 (PST), "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry"
>> <shaleh@valinux.com> wrote:
>>>As for taking woody packages and placing them in potato, the usual numbering
>>>scheme is:
>>>
>>>is foo_1.2-3.deb is from woody it becomes foo_1.2-0potato3.deb.
>>
>> I tried some of that stuff today and found out that starting the
>> company debian releases at 0 doesn't work very well. First, the
>> package manual says that the debian revision starts at 1, not at 0.
>> Second, starting at 0 breaks the comparability. An example:
>
>the usual use of this versioning is back porting from unstable to stable. So
>stable has foo 1.1, unstable has foo 1.2.
This is not the case for very static packages, or if some admin has
previously backported a unstable package to stable without tampering
with the version number.
>If the same version exists in both,
>then yes, you have to ensure the first number is bigger than what is already
>there. Part of the idea here is that if the user updates, the backported
>package won't always be larger than versions in later releases.
Looks like a "can't have all" situation. When I have
foo_2.2-6company4, I can't automatically update to foo_2.2-5 when it
appears. However, the same would have happened if I started at 1 and
released 6 new versions. That way, I'd be at 6company4, too.
Thanks for your insights.
Greetings
Marc
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