Re: Versioning prereleases

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> I believe that post-sarge it's possible to use '~' in version numbers?
>
> I am going to package a pre-release of gimp-print 5.0 for
> experimental and (later on) unstable.  Currently, the upstream
> releases are versioned like this:

If it is only for experimental and later sid and etch but not sarge
then you can use ~. ~ sorts lower than anything else.

But ~ isn't allowed for sarge, repeat NOT FOR SARGE.

> gutenprint-5.0.0-beta2.tar.bz2
> gutenprint-5.0.0-beta3.tar.bz2
> gutenprint-5.0.0-pre1.tar.bz2
> gutenprint-5.0.0-pre2.tar.bz2
> gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2
> gutenprint-5.0.1.tar.bz2
> ...

5.0.0~beta2
5.0.0~beta3
5.0.0~pre1
5.0.0~pre2
5.0.0
5.0.1

MfG
        Goswin