Re: [DebianGIS] grass 6.1-cvs available
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:12:52PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > > > I have a packaged cvs tree for grass, built for sid and available
> > > > for testing purpose. I would upload in both d-gis/unstable archive
> > > > if none has issues about, along with a backport for d-gis/stable
> > > > (not yet compiled). CVS tree is update to today.
> > >
> > > Is the cvs checkout date reflected in the version number?
> ..
> > Of course, yes: 6.0.1+cvs20051206 is the upstream version for the
> > package. That will allow other snapshots from the devel tree from
> > time to time.
>
> Ok, just as long as there is no confusion, as the 6.0.1 cvs is still
> open and a bug fix version will be released as 6.0.2. 6.1 will be
> released as 6.2.0 at some point.
>
> Is keeping the version number 6.0.1+cvs.. to prevent the 6.1CVS package > 6.1.0?
> AFAIK, there will not be any 6.1.x releases, just a 6.2rc series before
> the 6.2.0 release. So could it safely be versioned 6.1+cvs20051206 ?
> 6.0.1+cvs is slightly misleading.
>
Well current cvs still create a grass61 executable. BTW, 6.0.1+cvsxxx is
used to have a version which is greater than current 6.0.1-x and minor
than any other 6.x.y version. So we could release 6.0.2-n and 6.1-n
or 6.2-n without creating any problem in upgrade.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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