Another alternative to dealing with alpha/a, beta/b, RC/rc names in software versions is to put the descriptor into the revision field. So freeciv-2.2.0-RC1 under this mechanism would end up being
Version: 2.2.0 Revision: 0.0rc1.1 The first 0 in revision means that when the final release is out, a Revision of 1 will automatically supersede all previous versions. The second 0 is not necessary, but gives a little extra wiggle room, the first 1 is the release candidate version (or a1, b3, etc), and the trailing 1 works like revision normally does, keeping track of changes to the info file. I used this setup with the firefox3 beta/rc packages w/ no problems. Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
