On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 04:07:13AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > > I uploaded "2.6.0.dev1". This was to enable OpenStack CI to start > running > > tests using the version of the Python library that includes Python 3. I > > followed some python packaging / pypi versioning guidelines to pick that > > number. It indicates that it's a dev snapshot of what will eventually > > (presumably) be 2.6.0. I know OVS generates 2.5.90, but I don't find > that > > appropriate to use, as it isn't 2.5 at all. > > The .90 suffix is supposed to indicate that it's much greater than 2.5, > but less than 2.6. > > dpkg considers 2.6.0.dev1 to be greater than 2.6.0: > $ if dpkg --compare-versions 2.6.0.dev1 gt 2.6.0; then echo greater; > else echo less; fi > greater > so it seems like a poor choice for anything in Debian. > > (I guess you must know the rules for Fedora, so presumably this works > there? Those rules seem to involve separate Version and Release fields > and I really don't understand them. On the other hand, according to > https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2005-January/msg00005.html, > developers are discouraged from understanding details of the version > numbering rules for RPM...) >
This was just a dev snapshot for PyPI (Python Package Index), not intended to be packaged anywhere else. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/ -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
