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. Thank you, Jeremy Bicha _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
