-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
> But I do agree it would be nice to have a special syntax for version > numbers allowing to cope with {pre,alpha,beta}-like numbering. It is > perfectly sane to distinguish between "it's in testing stage" and > "it's released software", and we should IMHO support such a thing. > > Anyone against that ? Yes, me. Current glibc_2.0.7pre1-3 should have been packaged for experimental, since it is not released software. Something like "2.0.6.3" or "2.0.6.pre2.0.7-3" would have been a better name (I use procmail_3.10.7 for procmail-3.11pre7). Once we already have 2.0.7pre1-3, I would not mind at all having to install final 2.0.7 by hand, without ugly epochs or "rel" things. We should remember that most people have *not* upgraded to hamm yet. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNQEulyqK7IlOjMLFAQHFtAP/XDBv+SY+s+BJ/6TJggAVtsO5dJ8pEmBe IBMQtukSiVQuEQBN3jof/fjm+eU21lDJpVJdYmTBHXmxuha7Lrsx393NkOqtccc4 zWrEGXZM2UA0oTNSHyW47N6qpxE2RI5YLehCyWVDIPsD732P3w5bLFxP1C6dRKOo EEG49Vk1dUk= =y+m3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----