On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 4:08 PM Jeremy Bicha via desktop-devel-list < desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> Resending since my previous email went to the moderation queue. > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 9:41 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> > wrote: > > In contrast, everyone knows how to handle alpha/beta/rc and knows what > > they mean. Just use tildes instead of periods in the appstream metadata > > (43~alpha, etc.) > > Debian and its derivatives have a similar problem with the GNOME 40 > style pre-release version numbering. We have to rewrite the versions > to use tildes instead of periods. It looks like Fedora is having to do > that too. > > So we have a situation where it's requiring extra version mangling by > both distros and GNOME maintainers (to translate the version for the > AppStream metadata format), I believe distros have figured out > workarounds and updated their packaging scripts a while ago, but the > AppStream situation is probably needing manual work by GNOME > maintainers and mistakes are made. > > I think we could save everyone some work by just making the tilde > style official instead of periods for pre-releases. > Arch changes prerelease versions as well, but we have to remove the period (40.rc -> 40rc) so that it orders before 40 or 40.0. A tilde is handled the same as a period and would not help us.
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