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Re: binNMUs and versions



On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:17:49PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:51:36PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > I'd rather see the binNMU version in the installed_version field - after
> > > all, for that architecture, that is the version that is installed. When
> > > filing a binNMU it is confusing to first see it go from 1.0-1
> > > (Installed) to 1.0-1+b1 (Needs-Build) to 1.0-1+b1 (Built) to 1.0-1
> > > (Installed). I'd expect it to stay at 1.0-1+b1 (Installed), if you know
> > > what I mean.
> > Eh, I need to translate myself I assume:
> > "I would tend to put the version number including the binary epoch
> > (e.g. 1.2.3+b1) in all fields, ...".
> I'm not sure how you'll get that to work, because you wouldn't
> know what the source version is anymore?

What we see in that version field is a faked version anyway.  It's not
about the binary version, it's either source version or
concat(source version, '+b', binNMU version).

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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