Re: Version numbering scheme according to date (Was: [med-svn] r3340 - in trunk/packages/phyml: tags trunk/debian)
Le Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:48:24PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
>> Modified: trunk/packages/phyml/trunk/debian/changelog
>> ===================================================================
>> --- trunk/packages/phyml/trunk/debian/changelog 2009-04-30 20:57:26 UTC (rev 3339)
>> +++ trunk/packages/phyml/trunk/debian/changelog 2009-04-30 23:56:12 UTC (rev 3340)
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> -phyml (21042009-1) unstable; urgency=low
>> +phyml (30042009-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
> If upstream does not have a real version numbering and we have
> to invent our own version numbers this is always a bad thing.
> But in this case a very unpractical numbering was choosen.
> You should always use a YYYYMMDD version sequence if you are
> coding the date into the version number. The rationale
> behind this si that you can easily increase those numbers but
> you can not for instance a checkout of today would have a
> smaller version number.
Hi Stéphane,
first of all, good news: phyml was accepted in Debian a few minutes ago.
It will be much much easier for us to track your future updates if you would
invert your versionning dates: YYYYMMDD instead of DDMMYYYY. Of course, other
versionning schemes are fine as well, provided that their numerical sorting
matches their chronological sorting.
Have a nice week-end,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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