On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:30:12PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > The proper way is to simply not upload to mentors.d.n with > > > 'official' debian revision numbers. Assuming the offical version > > > will be 1.0-1, use for example 1.0-1~mentors1 (if mentors.d.n > > > accepts ~ in version numbers), or alternatively 1.0-0mentors1 > > > (decrease debian-revision by one, append a mentor-specific part). > > > > Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use > > > > 1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for non official debian packages. > > I don't think this is a good idea, because those numbers are used for > non-maintainer uploads. You could have different versions with the same > number, one uploaded to m.d.n and the other uploaded to the main archive > as an NMU. It's also confusing because it looks like an NMU. Relax. Offical Debian package numbers start with x.y.z-1, never as x.y.z-0 There is no harm that it _looks_ like a NMU, it does mean no official Debian status. Please assume smart users that can tell the difference between zero and non zero. About: > You could have different versions with the same > number, one uploaded to m.d.n and the other uploaded to the main archive > as an NMU. What a b..ls..t, main archive wouldn't have a x.y.z-0.1 And when will happen x.y.z-1.1, a NMU on a mentors.debian.net package? > > I think numbers like 1.0-0test1 (where "test" can be any string) are > best, if you need to create separate testing versions that will not be > uploaded to the archive. This method is used by other Debian developers > including the XFree86 maintainers (c.f. xfree86 4.3.0-0pre1v3). Yes, there are situations where it makes sense to have x.y.z-0pre1v3 > > I use normal versions like 1.2.1-1 when uploading to m.d.n, and this > hasn't caused any problems. If no bugs are found in the m.d.n package, > I send it to my sponsor to be uploaded with no further changes. This conversation is about having _different_ package numbers in m.d.n. and main archive, plus upgrade path to the offical package. Do you and your users a favour, and use a way where you can have several unofficial packages and smooth upgrade to the official package. Say x.y.z-0.1, x.y.z-0sss1 or x.y.z-0whatever1. It is up to you to choose, dpkg --compare-versions doesn't care. Cheers Geert Stappers -- sss : stupid short string
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