Hi,
>>"Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jules> Someone suggested this earlier in the discussion, and someone
Jules> else pointed out that this is clearly against policy, since
Jules> anything after the '-' should reflect debian-specific
Jules> packaging changes, not upstream changes.
Technically, this is correct, unless we take the stance that
pre-releases are not really upstream releases (I find that quite
reasonable -- isn't that implied by the very definition?); so these
versions are released as a kinda debian-revision-to-detect-bugs, and
take a -0* debian version.
The options are:
a) Use epochs, which can then never be done away with
b) Play games with suffixes on the upstream version, and rely
on both dpkg and people recognizing that the pre release
suffix are older than the release suffix,
c) pretend pre-releases are a -0 debian revision, and are not
really upstream releases (I still contend they are not real
upstream releases)
manoj
its all a matter of interpretation ;-)
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