Re: upstream numbering scheme debian compliant ?

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

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:35:27AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The current gphoto2 release is 2.0beta5 wich is packaged as 2.0beta5.
> For the final release 2.0, I will package it as 2.0final.
> 
> What would be the best numbering scheme for the next beta series to
> avoid the use of final for the stable release ?
> 
> I think about 2.0.99beta1, 2.0.99beta2 ... 2.1

  The problem is that 2.0.99beta < 2.0final, if I'm right.
  (Try dpkg --compare-versions "2.0.99beta" lt "2.0final" ,
   if $? is not 0 then I'm wrong)

  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.

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Jérôme Marant