Re: Versioning prereleases

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> schrieb:

> I use
>
>   5.0-0+5.0pre1+2
>   A   B C       D
>
> with A being the main version, B the debian release (0 < 1), C the
> real version, and D the debian release of the pre-release.
>
> I think this should work fine.

Except that, as far as I can see, it doesn't matter that (0 < 1). The
debian revision is the part after the *last* dash; there may be more
dashes in the upstream version.

I don't know whether dpkg cares about this when comparing versions; it
probably doesn't distinguish between upstream version and debian
revision in this case; but the result is probably the same.

But if you previously had 5.0-6 and now package release candidate 1 for
5.1, you can use 5.0-6+5.1pre1-2 or 5.0-0+5.1pre1-2 - both will be
larger than 5.0-6, and smaller than 5.1-1.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer