On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:51:24PM -0400, Stephen Waterbury wrote: > Trent Mick wrote: >> I've been thinking from the p.o.v. of what releases get up on PyPI.... >> and I gather that those releases are the ones that lead to potential >> packaging in RPM and .deb repositories. > > I think that is not necessarily true -- I seem to recall some discussion > in the PyCon sessions about OS distro folks sometimes having to > package dev versions ... hopefully there are some distro packagers > here who can chime in on this ...
True, some packages have versions like 1.2.3+hg20090612-1 in which case there didn't even need to be a development release. Of course 1.2.3.dev456-1 would be fine too (the last "-1" would be debian's version, ignore that). Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
