On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 10:29:43AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > Brandon Mitchell has come up with a better scheme than my "numbering" > alternative. Consider the following: > > 2.0.8pre1 2.0.8-0pre1 > 2.0.8pre2 2.0.8-0pre2 > 2.0.8 2.0.8-1 > > This has several advantages over my previous scheme. It preserves the > upstream version information in "human readable form". It takes advantage > of the fact that dpkg will create a source upload for -0 and -1 sequences. > It naturally maintains the dpkg sequence ordering of the version numbers. > It doesn't need to use epochs.
It has one disadvantage I can see. The -0pre looks like it's something it's not, but I believe people will figure it out, especially if the desc contained real version info.
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