Re: new versioning policy

[Ronny Aasen <ronny@skolelinux.no>]

Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/ArchivePolicy currently says:
>
> 6. The version number for the packages debian-edu, debian-edu-config and 
> debian-edu-install should be of the form 0.415.0.edu.etch.1+svn38891 when 
> uploading to the debian-edu repository, and on the form 0.415 when uploading 
> to the debian repository.
>
>
> As we now have the new dak version running, I suggest we change this, to make 
> use of the ~ in versions. To summarize this:
>
> <vagrantc> ~ just means "a little before" 
> <vagrantc> so -3~* will always be smaller than -3
>
> So I suggest to rewrite it to:
>
> --------------
> 6. The version number for the packages uploaded to debian-edu should always be 
> lower than the version in Debian (if the source packages content is identical 
> except for the changelog). This should be achieved by using ~ in version 
> numbers, adding ~edu.etch+1 for uploads to etch and ~edu.lenny+1 for uploads 
> to lenny.
>
> As ~ can be used more than once, svn versions should be written as 
> 0.415~svn38891-1 (for debian) and 0.415~svn38891-1~edu.lenny+1 (for 
> debian-edu lenny).
> --------------
>
> Comments?
>
>   

I think it's a good idea. More logical (in my mind), to keep the major 
part of the version number identical in local and debian.

We should also rewrite pkt 5 to take the new versioning scheme into 
account.
for example..

We recommend to use specific version strings for our backports so if you 
have a debian revision number -1 you should use -1~edu.suite+1, where 
"suite" is for instance "sarge" or later "etch".

Kind regards
Ronny Aasen