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Re: Unreleased libraries



Another round of nitpicking:

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 10:01:46AM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote:
> > On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> > >Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases?
> > 
> > A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream

Isn't it:

0.0~svn1234-1 ? It is part of the upstream version, not of your
packaging.

> > version of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever release) to supersede your
> > packaged version. It should also allow you to upgrade via new svn
> > version (0.0-1~svnr1235), as well as new packaging of same svn
> > version (0.0-2~svnr1234).  Please, correct me, if there is a better
> > method, here!
> 
> One other thing to keep in mind: what if they switch to git?

Answering myself: here's a simpler trick:

Subversion revisions:

0~svn<revision>

Switching to git:

0.0~git<date>

Ugly, but not as ugly as switching an epoch, and you don't have to pay
the price in advance as with '~~' or using dates for everything.

And will be properly fixed when they finally issue a version.

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