Re: fixing rc-version-greater-than-expected-version
Le Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:01:51AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:10:59PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > > In this case version 2.0.0-beta6 users will not notice the final
> > > release. I fail to see your problem in using a technique which was
> > > invented exactly for this purpose.
> >
> > When Upstream releases 2.0.0 we can package it as 1:2.0.0-1.
>
> Unfortunately also our automatic tools will not inform us about the
> 2.0.0 release and thus chances are good that we only realise 2.0.1
> release ... whenever this will happen. For sure I'm writing this from a
> perspective of somebody who always needs to rely on what uscan is
> reporting because I will not manually watch specific download sites.
That is a good point. I am probably biased in that I only use the good old
qa.debian.org page, which will display the version number in a different color
whenever it mismatches.
So let's use an epoch :)
--
Charles
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