On 5/19/05, Joel N. Weber II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why debian unstable is still using 1.99j would seem to be an > interesting question, orthogonal to whatever issues I've been dealing > with.
Actually, unstable's pcb version is "1.99j+20050127-2". Basically, by keeping "1.99j" at the front of the version number, it allows a future version of pcb with version 2.0 to exist without resorting to even weirder-looking version numbers such as 1:2.0. If the Debian package were to be changed to version 20050127-2, then 2.0 by itself would not be considered a newer version number, and upgrades wouldn't work. This isn't to say that pcb _needs_ to become 2.0 at some point, but it's the same sort of versioning scheme that Icarus Verilog uses in Debian (0.7 -> 0.7+YYYYMMDD -> 0.8). -- - Charles Lepple
