On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 02:01:23PM -0400, Chris Ross via dovecot wrote: > >> the -4 comes from our build system. > > > > Regardless where it comes from, "-" is usually used for the package version. > > Yes, which is why a build system is attaching it. It’s a build number or > version of the package being built. > I don’t know the history here, but it sounds like the problem might be > that you’re building something and then trying to take the built assets > and repackage then with another build system. Normally, the solution > is to not build twice. > Aki, is the “build system” you mention producing builds, or is it a system > that is used to tag sources? Maybe this is what I’m missing.
FWIW, in the Debian packaging world the uscan tool can be configured to transform the upstream version string as needed to cope with things like this. For Debian itself, I simply stripped the trailing `-4` with the following change: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dovecot/-/commit/18c417079ce1df831f860e20ae0c4c4f15786c09 But yeah, it was a surprise to see it show up, and it did force me to deal with uscan's arcane configuration syntax. It would certainly not upset me if future releases didn't append such a suffic to the version string in the published artifacts. noah _______________________________________________ dovecot mailing list -- dovecot@dovecot.org To unsubscribe send an email to dovecot-le...@dovecot.org
