> On 30 Sep 2014, at 17:35, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2014, at 11:06 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Installers and PyPI would then regard "3.1.4-1" as belonging to >> release "3.1.4", but being a more current build as a distribution >> file carrying "3.1.4" in its file name. > > Please don't literally use "3.1.4-1". That will cause all kinds of havoc with > the Debian ecosystem. There we use a dash to separate upstream version > numbers from Debian version numbers. Thus 3.1.4-1 means the first Debian > upload of upstream's 3.1.4. 3.1.4-2 is the second, etc.
Debian does allow 3.1.4-1-1. I forgot the exact rules, but I seem to remember the package version is considered to start after the last dash. Debian will also sort 3.1.4a after 3.1.4 unlike Python rules, so version “massaging” might be necessary in other situations as well. Wichert. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
