Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...
--On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 9:55 pm +0100 "Philip Hands" <phil@hands.com> wrote:
>> Philip> The ``put the painful bit after the dash in the debian
>> Philip> version'' suggestion is no good I'm afraid, because the
>> Philip> orig.tar.gz ends up giving the impression that Debian has the
>> Philip> release version already, whereas it's just the pre-release
>> Philip> version with a bogus name.
>>
>> Well, yes, the source file does do that. The .deb files do
>> too, unless one is aware that the -0pre means a pre-release.
>>
>> Ulp. I had not considered the source dist, and maybe we
>> should.
>>
>> In balance, 2.0.7.99.1 seems to be the least kludgey.
>
> I concur.
>
> I think the policy should be:
>
> 1) don't use 1.2.3pre style versions, even if the upstream author does,
> because you'll have a problem when 1.2.3 comes out.
>
> 2) So you didn't read 1) until after you released foo_1.2.3pre-1 ?
>
> OK, just bump the epoch, and don't do it again.
>
> 3) One nice way of avoiding this is to do the following:
>
> Authors version: Debian version
>
> foo-1.2.2 foo-1.2.2-1
> foo-1.2.2-2
> foo-1.2.3alpha foo-1.2.2.99.1-1
> foo-1.2.2.99.1-2
> foo-1.2.3beta foo-1.2.2.99.2-1
> foo-1.2.2.99.2-2
> foo-1.2.3 foo-1.2.3-1
>
There is some merit to including the full upstream version somewhere in the
number.
Something along the lines of
foo-1.2.2-1.2.3alpha-1
(Will this sort correctly? I believe so, but my debian machine is turned
off so I can't check :-( )
The disadvantage of this is that it makes for a long version number, of
course.
Jules
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