Re: Versioning question
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the next
> release will be 0.70. The obvious problem is:
> steve@gashuffer:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes
> steve@gashuffer:~$
>
> That won't upgrade, so I need some hack to do it. I could go with
> something like 0.70-0rc1, but then I have to change the name of the
> upstream tarball as well to a version that it really isn't, correct?
> Anybody already faced this problem and come up with a reasonable
> solution?
Don't package release candidates? <grin>
There's lots of ways of hacking the version number, as you've seen. All of
them suck in different ways, you just have to pick one that looks the least
ugly to you...
- Matt
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