Re: Need Help - What to do on bad upstream release number ?
On 29/03/10 at 15:38 +0200, Laurent Vallar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sinatra 1.0 has been released and packaging is done : nothing more to
> do, trunk is ready...
> I should ask a DD to review SVN libsinatra-ruby but there is a big
> problem : latest versions were numbered 1.0.a then 1.0.b and now the
> release is ... 1.0 !
>
> What to do in this case ? Ask upstream to fix release number or else
> do something to debian changelog ?
You can use 1.0.really1.0-1 as a version, for example.
For alpha and beta releases, it is better to use the ~ character, that
is lower than all other characters.
Examples:
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.b lt 1.0.really1.0 ; echo $?
0
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0~b lt 1.0 ; echo $?
0
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