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Re: Unusual version numbering systems



On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:19:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:51:19 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> said: 
> 
> > Hi, I have packaged a piece of software [1] which uses a version
> > number system which is not compatible with Debian's ordering.
> 
> > The version numbers go like
> 4.1 
> 4.12     -> 4.1.2
> 4.2rc<n> -> 4.2~rc<n>
> 4.2
> 4.21     -> 4.2.1
> (maybe 4.3)
> 
>         Mostly upstream compliant, modulo adding a period, no epochs, no
>  willing upstream required -- as long as upstream does not suddenly
>  change version numbering midstream.

Thanks for all the replies; I will let upstream know and package 4.21 as
4.2.1 (as it's already been released I it doesn't seem reasonable to
expect that to change...)

Dominic.

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