Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-11 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
This is in response to the whole thread, not just this single message This is something I suspected would happen but since I'm new to Debian I figured you guys had it all worked out. I guess I should have said something sooner. The solution is pretty simple, though fairly revolutionary. Limit th

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Herbert Xu wrote: > > Andreas Metzlerwrote: > >> cu and- I would not use an epoch unless I was forced to, > >> ugly package versions go, epochs stay forever -reas > > > You know what, version numbers stay forever too. Well, they would > > if it weren't for

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> cu and- I would not use an epoch unless I was forced to, >> ugly package versions go, epochs stay forever -reas > You know what, version numbers stay forever too. Well, they would > if it weren't

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Mark Johnson wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm updating the docbook-simple package from V1.0cr2 to V1.0. Since > 1.0cr2 > 1.0, I'm not sure how to handle the situation. > > Policy & the Developers Reference imply that I upload V1.0 and file a > bug against ftp.debian.org to have V1.0CR2 removed from the >

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-08 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:24:38 -0500 Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 7, Mark Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm updating the docbook-simple package from V1.0cr2 to V1.0. Since > > 1.0cr2 > 1.0, I'm not sure how to handle the situation. > > 1.0.0 will do the trick, and I thi

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-07 Thread Herbert Xu
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cu and- I would not use an epoch unless I was forced to, > ugly package versions go, epochs stay forever -reas You know what, version numbers stay forever too. Well, they would if it weren't for the epoch... -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 i

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm updating the docbook-simple package from V1.0cr2 to V1.0. Since > 1.0cr2 > 1.0, I'm not sure how to handle the situation. > Policy & the Developers Reference imply that I upload V1.0 and file a > bug against ftp.debian.org to have V1.0CR2 removed from

Re: Version Updating Question

2003-11-07 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:57:54PM -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm updating the docbook-simple package from V1.0cr2 to V1.0. Since > 1.0cr2 > 1.0, I'm not sure how to handle the situation. > > Policy & the Developers Reference imply that I upload V1.0 and file a > bug against ftp.deb