[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 17.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 17 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote: > > > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This is part of an email exchange Sven and I had. Simply put, I put > > > in a new alpha binary of dpkg-1.4.0.19 that represented nothing but > > > a recompile to pick up new libg++, ncurses, etc. Sven suggested > > > that this warranted a non-maintainer-release number, whereas I had > > > gotten the idea that non-maintainer-releases suggested code changes. > > > > I hope Guy will reject that. If the binary changes, the version > > number should change. > > This is that way because our package system does not allow several binary > packages for the same source package. But it should. Huh?! If the binary changes, the version number should change. It doesn't matter _why_ the binary changed. Several binary packages for the same source? What on earth has that to do with it?! Besides, how is it that the system doesn't allow it? I thought we had several of those. Stuff like, say, X. > > Things break if you don't increase the version > > number (e.g. automatic upgrade and bug reporting) and you don't have > > to a source release to do a non-maintainer release, just add a new > > entry to the changelog before you recompile. > > Again this is a limitation of our current source|binary packaging scheme. > Does not mean it has to be that way. Sounds to me like exactly the way it _should_ be. > > What advantage do you see in *not* changing the version number? > > Changing the *source* version number would be a gratuitous change. We're talking of the Debian release version, here. I don't understand why that bugs you; it seems the right thing to me. > It would be really nice to have something like epochs for > binary packages coming from the same source. > > i.e. > > hello_1.3-0 (compilation 0) is older than hello_1.3-0 (compilation 1) > and dpkg will see the need to upgrade. That would just needlessly confuse users. Gratuituous confusion is something we can do without, I think. MfG Kai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .