Re: [DebianGIS] Uploaded qgis 0.7.3-0.dgis.unstable.1 (source i386) to debian-gis

[Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>]

> > I used "sarge" and not "stable" as I think that is more specific. I
> > don't think it very probable that someone will still have a package
> > as  old as these installed when etch is released, but the probablity
> > is still finite. It's the naming scheme security team uses...
> 
> Just for notice
> 
> sarge > etch 
>  but
> stable < testing < unstable
> 
> under lessicographic order, of course.

Ok. I take it this is done by `dpkg --compare-versions` ?


> That motivates my choice of a nickname-independent naming scheme.

Right.

> Security team uses the nick scheme because, at release time, generally
> the testing/unstable debian version is already greater. This could not
> be the case for dgis, where someone could be motivated to dist-upgrade
> using the dgis archive before main release. We need to definitively
> coordinate 2 different archives and that's a naming scheme that
> allows that. That said your specific use of 'sarge' should not
> break things currently due to lack of 'etch' somewhere. Just
> incidentally anyway, if release name was 'bo' things would be
> different :)

I am happy to provide them in whatever naming scheme you prefer..


Hamish