Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16-1

[ERSEK Laszlo <lacos@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Ruben Molina wrote:

> > W: lbzip2: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version
> > 0.16rc1 precedes 0.16 chronologicallly.
>
> You should have used something like 0.16~rc1 for the previous release.
> See the --compare-versions option in dpkg for the next time.

Thanks.


> I think you can't upload this new release just as 0.16, maybe you should
> use 0.16rc2 to avoid an epoch...

I was thinking about 0.16z; I figured I could rename the source root to 
"lbzip2-0.16z" (instead of "lbzip2-0.16") from the upstream "lbzip2" and 
continue packaging as usual. In that case, however, "lbzip2 --version" and 
the Debian package would have stated different versions.

I think I'll just change the previous changelog entry to 0.16~rc1-1, since 
that package wasn't uploaded.

$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.16~rc1-1 '<' 0.16-1 && echo OK
OK

Thank you,
lacos