Daniel Lintott <dan...@serverb.co.uk> wrote: [..] > I have realised that in an earlier package upload, I made a blunder > with regards the version of the package.
> The package was versioned as 0.5b0-1, though I somehow missed, despite > testing the watch file that this should have been 0.5~b0-1. > I have seen some discussion on correcting the version number, either > by using an epoch or by adding an additional part to the version number. > - From what I can see, the only way to fix the version number here is to > use an epoch, but from what I've this should be avoided if possible, > so does anyone have any other suggestion on how to correct this > version number? [...] Hello, I do not think there are any other reasonable[1] possibilities available. You can either use an epoch (forever) or live with a ugly version number for some time. Personally I would use an ugly version number for the 0.5 release: Upstream Debian 0.5b0 0.5b0-1 0.5b1 0.5b1-1 ... 0.5rc1 0.5rc1-1 ... 0.5 0.5+rel-1 0.6b0 0.6~b1 (Please doublcheck the sorting with dpkg --compare-versions, I might have made an error, too. ;-) hth, cu Andreas [1] renaming the package does not count. -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/rt3kna-hp4....@argenau.downhill.at.eu.org
