On Thursday 28 January 2010 17:34:18 Ben Finney wrote: > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> writes: > > If the upstream version is currently 1.2.3, and debian version is > > something like 1.2.3-4, how about releasing Debian version > > 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3-1 with a new "upstream" tarball with version > > 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3. You avoid using an epoch and can continue > > waiting on a real 1.2.4 from upstream. > > That would give the impression that the source being packaged was > “really” version 1.2.4 in some sense. I don't get the impression that's > true here; the source is still version 1.2.3, just packaged in a > different way. > > Assuming that's true, then I would append a conventional ‘.ds1’ or > ‘.ds2’ etc. to the existing version, declaring the original source to be > version ‘1.2.3.ds1’, to show it has been repackaged *and* should be > considered later than ‘1.2.3’. Hence, the release would be version > ‘1.2.3.ds1-1’. I figures the ~repacked~1.2.3 was probably enough of a tip off. Doesn't matter to me. Yours sort of works: bss@rei:~% dpkg --compare-versions 1.2.3.ds1-1 lt 1.2.4; echo $? 0 bss@rei:~% dpkg --compare-versions 1.2.3.ds1-1 lt 1.2.3.1; echo $? 1 Russ Allbery's is probably best: bss@rei:~% dpkg --compare-versions 1.2.3+real1-1 lt 1.2.4; echo $? 0 bss@rei:~% dpkg --compare-versions 1.2.3+real1-1 lt 1.2.3.1; echo $? 0 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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