On 3 Aug 2000, Philip Hands wrote: > "J.A. Bezemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And IMHO 2.2r0 sounds much better than 2.2_r0 - so I'd suggest having a > > DEBVERSION="2.2r0" for the official CDs that will be made in 1.5 weeks or > > so. > > IIRC the right way of writing the full version was supposed to be: > > X.Y rZ > > with a space before the r, to emphasise the point that the revision > number is largely irrelevant to users when it's so easy to use apt-get > to go from one revision to the next. > > Obviously it's a bad idea to have spaces in filenames, hence the > underscore. I tend agree with Anne about dropping the underscore, on > the basis that debian2.2r0 is a valid MSDOS style 8.3 name, whereas > debian2.2_r0 is not.
The only place this _may_ occur is the symlink in the FTP archive. But I don't care about that thing, it may be anything the ftpmasters like. I doubt it's ever used. And it's wrong most of the time; it should be 2.2 r0.5 between the first security patch and the release of 2.2 r1... > That said, I still think we should write it as X.Y rZ (or more often > write it without the revision, unless it actually matters) when it's > not part of a filename. That's a very good idea indeed! I've scanned YACS and having a DEBVERSION="2.2 r0" shouldn't cause any problems (except see below...) (To get even less confusion, we could maybe call it "2.2 rev0" or something, but I don't think that's wise at the moment.) > Of course this does break Joey's assumption that we can look for an > underscore to determine the version number when looking for the > dedication, so add-bin-doc will need to look for an ``r'' instead. Oh dear. I see a terrible thing there that I'd classify as a beginners error. There are no quotes. Not around $DEBVERSION, but that was (until now) no big problem. $dir isn't quoted. And $dir can be anything, even "something ; rm -rf ~ ; somethingelse". Can someone PLEASE fix this?! (And scan the scripts for other similar things) Regards, Anne Bezemer
