On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:41:11PM -0800, William Scott wrote:
While this works, it does contaminate the version number. Another
approach is to encode the pre in the revision: 0.1.0-0.pre1.1 or
some such. Increment the last .1 for a new revision. This way you
can keep the version pure
Dear Colleagues:
I now realize I should have figured out the answer to this question
earlier, but I did not.
I have a package (coot) whose most recent version is a pre-release.
As it fixes a lot of bugs, and I am in almost daily contact with the
author, we decided it was in good shape
On 2/12/06, William Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dpkg --compare-versions 0.1.0-pre-1 gt 0.1.0 echo true
true
How about 0.1.0.0-1 ? (The other common alternative is to use an
epoch, but that's pretty ugly, and you can't ever stop using them once
you start. At least this way you can release
That's great. It works, and is so simple it hurts. Thanks!
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Charles Lepple wrote:
On 2/12/06, William Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dpkg --compare-versions 0.1.0-pre-1 gt 0.1.0 echo true
true
How about 0.1.0.0-1 ?
On Feb 12, 2006, at 7:01 PM, William Scott wrote:
That's great. It works, and is so simple it hurts. Thanks!
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Charles Lepple wrote:
On 2/12/06, William Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dpkg --compare-versions 0.1.0-pre-1 gt 0.1.0 echo true
true
How about 0.1.0.0-1
