Il mar, 2002-04-23 alle 22:46, Chad Walstrom ha scritto: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 01:01:28PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > for example dpkg still lacks a method to identify a pre-version. > > IMHO, "pre" is a really back-asswords way of version management. I > can't really argue much about it, even if I wanted too, because it's a > currently used schema (e.g. the Linux kernel's > MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-prePATCH). > > Debian answer: Why does this break dpkg? The existence of the hyphen > ('-') of course. The policy /does/ state that you must munge the no. hyphens give no problem to dpkg, because it treats all the hyphens as letters *apart* from the last one, that separate upstream version from debian version. the problem of dpkg is that there is *no guaranteed way* to discover if a letter is there to mean before or later. e.g., is 1.0 less than 1.0b? mmm... 1.0c? 1.0d? but usually 1.0a2 means alpha, 2. b = beta? or simply b comes after a and c after b? imo, the method used by dpkg is the best one, imo. [completely personal and not approved discussion on numbering schemes snipped] -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org INIT.D Developer fog@initd.org Those who do not study Lisp are doomed to reimplement it. Poorly. -- from Karl M. Hegbloom .signature
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