Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

>  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


Cheers, Phil.


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