Hi, On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:46:41AM +0100, Jan Dittberner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:33:49PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to package rust-mode > > (cf. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-mode). There is a version > > number in the source code (i.e., 0.2.0), but I haven't been able to > > find any releases or tags. I'd like to know if there are any best > > practices for handling the .orig.tar and the version number. > > > > I've tentatively created a tar archive of the latest Git revision > > (minus the .git directory) and named it > > elpa-rust-mode_0.2.0.orig.tar.gz. I have also set the package version > > to 0.2.0-1. Does anyone have a better suggestion? > > Please ask the upstream maintainers to create a release tag. If you can not > convince them you could package a specific git commit, but first try to get > a release tag. > > > Otherwise you should not just name the package 0.2.0-x but make sure that > you include the git commit id like: > > 0.2.0~git20160116.1.fa5b38f-1 > > This version will sort before a real 0.2.0 version: > > % dpkg --compare-versions 0.2.0~git20160116.1.fa4b38f-1 lt 0.2.0-1 && echo > "true" > true > > Parts of that version are defined like this: > > 0.2.0 is the version that will eventually be released > ~ makes it sort before an actual 0.2.0 release > git is just to make it human readable that git is involved > 20160616 date of the commit in the upstream repository in sortable order > 1 version of upstream on that date (if you want to package another > commit from the same date for hotfixes for example) > fa5b38f shortened git commit hash > -1 debian revision > > This will allow you to properly package later upstream version when new > commits occur. I came up with this suggestion after I had a look at the > versions of packages installed on my system: > > % dpkg -l|awk '{ print $3 }'|grep git|sort -u
Thanks for the information! I'll ask upstream to create a release tag and, if they don't, follow the version number convention you specified. Thanks again, -- Matt
