Re: Package beta versions of teTeX
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Christoph Martin wrote:
> > Thomas Esser has announced that there will be no stable releases of
teTeX
> > in 2000 and 2001. I think we should package the beta versions he
> > releases. If we would package the recent beta version we will get rid of
> > tetex-nonfree and the RC bug on tetex-base.
> >
> > What's your opinion on packaging the beta versions?
> >
>
> I agree. The recent versions are:
>
> teTeX-src-beta-20000807.tar.gz
> teTeX-texmf-beta-20000804.tar.gz
> teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20000804.tar.gz
>
> The debian version should be something like -1.0.beta.20000807 !?
No, it should be something like 1.0.2+20000807 because (look at the
second one):
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.2 lt 1.0.beta.20000807 && echo "lower"
lower
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.3 lt 1.0.beta.20000807 && echo "lower"
lower
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.2 lt 1.0.2+20000807 && echo "lower"
lower
$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0.3 lt 1.0.2+20000807 && echo "lower"
> C
cu,
Adrian
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