Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...
Hi,
>>"Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
Rob> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:
>> I actually like this. I still think that the aversion people
>> have for epochs is rather more than is warranted from the technical
>> objections (the mandatory longevity _is_ a technical objection), but
>> the -0 approach is elegant.
Rob> I mostly agree, but the argument that anything to the right of the
Rob> dash should only reflect *Debian* related revisions does hold some
Rob> water.
Well, my contention is that pre-release are *not* upstream
releases. They can arguably be termed a special release (not an
upstream release) that the debian maintainer has chosen to make. This
is a bit of a stretch, but acceptable, in my opinion.
Rob> It might be a little nicer to just define a "right side" epoch.
Rob> Something like:
Rob> 2.0.7-1:alpha
Rob> 2.0.7-1:pre1
Rob> etc.
Rob> So anything to the right of a : that's to the right of the - would be
Rob> the mini-epoch, and any package with a :foo at the end automatically
Rob> sorted as older than the same version of the package without the :X
Rob> (ignoring the debian revision).
Rob> (I'd rather use 2.0.7:pre1-1, but we can't because then something like
Rob> 1:2-4 becomes ambiguous.)
Interesting. A higher epoch makes a package newer, this new
proposal make a package version older. Nice. We could even tack it to
the left using a different symbol:
1:pre~libc-2.07-1 < 1:libc-2.07-1
1:pre~libc-2.07-1 > libc-2.07-1
Or we can, as Rob proposed, tack it on to the right. The
critical part is that this new "mini-epoch" makes a package
sort older.
manoj
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