* Jan Hauke Rahm (j...@debian.org) [110502 19:22]: > On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:16:47PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > I guess I'm misunderstanding you here, so please help me out. If a > > > package is being worked on in different PPAs regarding different > > > problems (thinking of serializing transitions for instanced but many > > > other examples apply), how can they share the same version number > > > without conflicting? > > > > Well, the combination of version number and package name needs to be > > globally unique. Otherwise, consider what would happen if someone > > reports a bug against a package/version, and we can't see which one it > > was. > > > > That doesn't mean two packages have the same version number - in > > contrast, they don't. But as you usually can't coinstall different > > versions of e.g. the same library, that's all fair. > > In other words, you're suggesting some kind of versioning scheme for > PPAs in order to avoid version conflicts?
No. We started with "where can we take the package for building", and I said "there should never be two different packages with same name and version, so they all can be in one sources list". There are different possibilities to resolve this - I'm not saying that I have a perfect solution. But we need to make sure the combination of package name and version is globally unique. As we do today. Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110502173035.gw2...@mails.so.argh.org
