> I'm having trouble figuring out how to properly handle beta versions > without requiring an Epochs, or the inability to provide new source. > > I've got sendmail-8.12.0.Beta5, but will eventually have sendmail-8.12.0-1. > > *) using sendmail-8.12.0-0Beta5 will allow 8.12.0-1 to superceed, but > runs problems of replacing the .orig.tar.gz file > > *) using sendmail-8.12.0.Beta5 would need an epoch to have 8.12.0 superceed > > What is the recommended approach to handle this?
Well, I'm not quite sure what's best, but if you want something that would work you could do something like: sendmail-8.11.9+8.12.0.beta5 Assuming 8.11.9 is the last non-beta version. The version string means it's 8.11.9 plus patches to bring it up to 8.12.0.beta5, but not yet an official 8.12.0 release. Dpkg will sort packages like this: sendmail-8.11.9-x sendmail-8.11.9+8.12.0.beta4-x sendmail-8.11.9+8.12.0.beta5-x sendmail-8.11.9+8.12.0.beta6-x sendmail-8.12.0-x with different orig tarballs for each release above. Eric
