On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 08:39:33PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:08:49AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote:
> > The upstream of zblast released 1.2 after he released 1.2pre.
> > The problem is that dpkg thinks 1.2 is older than 1.2pre.
> > So I asked him what I should do. He picked 1.2.1 for
> > the Debian package, saying "I very rarely use x.y.z
> > versions, and I've never used them for zblast."
> >
> > Did I do something wrong here? I don't think an epoch
> > is for such a case.
>
> AFAIK, it's exactly for that case.
It would work this time (as 1:1.2 > 1.2pre), but the next time, should he
bump the epoch again? I don't think so. 2:1.3 > 1:1.3pre > 1:1.3 .
Yuuma's in a fix, and epochs will fix this case, but it's the wrong thing
to plan on doing in general. I'd even try really hard to avoid it, using
1.2.0 this time, instead of prepending an epoch. Epochs are ugly.
I usually use 1.2+YYYYMMDD for snapshots and 1.1+1.2preN for "prereleases".
I did adopt a package (openjade) that has such a problem, though.
- chad
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