--On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 9:55 pm +0100 "Philip Hands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Philip> The ``put the painful bit after the dash in the debian >> Philip> version'' suggestion is no good I'm afraid, because the >> Philip> orig.tar.gz ends up giving the impression that Debian has the >> Philip> release version already, whereas it's just the pre-release >> Philip> version with a bogus name. >> >> Well, yes, the source file does do that. The .deb files do >> too, unless one is aware that the -0pre means a pre-release. >> >> Ulp. I had not considered the source dist, and maybe we >> should. >> >> In balance, 2.0.7.99.1 seems to be the least kludgey. > > I concur. > > I think the policy should be: > > 1) don't use 1.2.3pre style versions, even if the upstream author does, > because you'll have a problem when 1.2.3 comes out. > > 2) So you didn't read 1) until after you released foo_1.2.3pre-1 ? > > OK, just bump the epoch, and don't do it again. > > 3) One nice way of avoiding this is to do the following: > > Authors version: Debian version > > foo-1.2.2 foo-1.2.2-1 > foo-1.2.2-2 > foo-1.2.3alpha foo-1.2.2.99.1-1 > foo-1.2.2.99.1-2 > foo-1.2.3beta foo-1.2.2.99.2-1 > foo-1.2.2.99.2-2 > foo-1.2.3 foo-1.2.3-1 > There is some merit to including the full upstream version somewhere in the number. Something along the lines of foo-1.2.2-1.2.3alpha-1 (Will this sort correctly? I believe so, but my debian machine is turned off so I can't check :-( ) The disadvantage of this is that it makes for a long version number, of course. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | Debian GNU/Linux - "Microsoft *does* have a year 2000 problem - | | and we're it!" (paraphrased from IRC) | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
