Re: [gentoo-dev] JFYIOR: A Simple Package Versioning Spec

[konsolebox]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Matthew Thode
<prometheanf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 09/18/2015 01:24 PM, konsolebox wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:38 PM, Matthew Thode
>> <prometheanf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> Are you stating this is for package epochs?
>>
>> I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with the term.  If you mean package
>> versions, yes.
>>
>> The current specification I also mentioned is this:
>> https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/5/pms.html#x1-280003.2
>>
>
> Nah, I'm talking about epochs.  When a package wishes to reversion
> itself, changing how it does versioning.
>
> For instance, nova is going to go from 2015.1.1 to 12.0.0, so 2015.n.x
> is epoch 1, and 12.y.z is epoch 2.  Think of it like super versioning.
>
No.. I believe it's up to the ebuild maintainer what versioning
strategy he'd use.  Personally I don't mind having 12.x.y and 2015.x.y
to co-exist.  You just have to mask 2015.x.y with keywords if
necessary.  Some packages actually mix version numbers.  It just
depends.