Re: upstream numbering scheme debian compliant ?

[Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

> >   (Try dpkg --compare-versions "2.0.99beta" lt "2.0final" ,
> >    if $? is not 0 then I'm wrong)
> 
> $  dpkg --compare-versions "2.0.99beta" lt "2.0final" ; echo $?
> 1
> $  dpkg --compare-versions "2.1" lt "2.0.99beta" ; echo $?
> 1
> 
> > 
> >   I would advice that you do not provide beta versions
> >   of software, because this is bad practice. If you really
> >   want to do this, please ship both the stable version and
> >   the beta version.
> 
> Yes but it depends how the project evolves.
> For gphoto2, the final was out (today) long after the first beta and
> theses betas where in good shape.

  By the way, why gphoto2 instead of gphoto since 2.0 is out ?

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Jérôme Marant