On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:54:00PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > There's also no documentation of this numbering scheme: does it differ when
> > applied to a {native, non-native} package? A {maintainer upload, NMU}?
> > So actually I can't write a fix, period.> How did bin-NMU numbers work for the old numbering scheme on native > packages? In an ugly fashion. (The same problem still affects sourceful NMUs of native packages today.) > > So the silent and unmotivated changes made to binNMU version numbering have > > *prevented* this from being fixed. Good example of how not to do things. > After pursuing some of the previous posts on the issue before posting my > patch, I discovered that there was concern that it would be more > difficult to write the proper patch for the old binNMU format, > specifically knowing to convert -3.0.1 to -3 but -3.1.1 to -3.1, and > other things like -3.sarge1.1 or somesuch. It was my impression that > this change to +b1 numbers was designed to make this patch easier to > implement. Of course, I wasn't involved in any of the discussions, so I > don't know for sure. The primary aim of this change was to address the fact that there was no consistent numbering scheme that satisfies the constraint binNMU < security NMU < source NMU. And contrary to Nathanael's protestations, this was discussed publically on debian-devel -- a year ago -- and this solution arrived at with the input of an ftpmaster and the then-current dpkg maintainer, among others. It just didn't get implemented until after wanna-build & co. gained support for binNMUs, making them commonplace: $ zgrep -c 'Version:.*-[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+$' dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 38 $ zgrep -c 'Version:.*-[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+$' dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 52 $ zgrep -c 'Version:.*+b[0-9]\+$' dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 294 $ -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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