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Re: New Package Developer



On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:47:20AM -0500, Shawn P. Garbett wrote:
> Here's another question. The package uses a version naming scheme such that 
> the current version is 'h13u'. Creating a Debian package, do I need to have a 
> straight forward naming scheme like '1.01' or should I just keep the version 
> as 'h13u'?

Depends, really. What would other examples of this versioning scheme be?

The main thing you should consider is whether 'dpkg --compare-versions
<old-version> lt <new-version>' will always be true.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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