Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> writes: > I was advised by a Debian maintainer to use tilde '~' as the > separator as any text following it will be considered "older". For > example, in our project 'Hamlib-3.0~git' is "older" than > 'Hamlib-3.0' will be once released. A hyphen or underscore trips > this logic up, as I understand it, for both .deb and .rpm formats.
This is a Debian-specific syntax, for use in Debian package version numbers. It's a handy way for the Debian maintainer to directly represent various existing package version naming schemes with only mechanical changes (typical, replacing a "_" or "-" with "~"), but I don't think there's any intent that upstreams should adopt this syntax directly (though I suppose it doesn't particularly hurt if they do...). -miles -- Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
