I'm jcf, and I endorse this plan. Cheers,
jcf On Jun 17, 2015 12:12, "Eric Sorenson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2015, jcf wrote: > > >>> I don't think that reflects a firm grasp of the nature of the problem. >>> The issue is that the "new thing" here is not the thing that the package's >>> version number should be describing in the first place. I don't care about >>> the newness of AIO layout and packaging, and I don't expect many others >>> will either. People don't install Puppet for its packaging. I do care >>> about the versions of various components of the system, but not everyone >>> will, and anyway, we have already established that an AIO package's version >>> number is not a good vehicle for communicating information about versions >>> of auxilliary components. Focus on what's important. To your audience. >>> >> >> I am also pretty baffled that this is considered hard, or even a matter >> for debate. Principle of Least Surprise, or just have the contents match >> the tin. >> > > FWIW I find this argument pretty compelling and would like to advance the > version number of the next release of puppet-agent to '4.something'. > > Our current thinking is that this will be a matched to the puppet version, > with an extra digit on the end of the version number that indicates > component revisions other than Puppet itself. > > So specifically, the next release will be puppet-agent-4.2.0.0; a > hypothetical rev to include a not-very-hypothetical openssl update would be > included in a puppet-agent-4.2.0.1 package. > > (We can't use the release field as suggested up-thread, because some > packaging systems don't view numbers not part of the 'version' field to be > an upgrade.) > > Does that align more closely with the least-surprising thing, to you? > > Eric Sorenson - [email protected] - freenode #puppet: eric0 > puppet platform // coffee // techno // bicycles > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAPbcvHiVgfnb4%3D1D3V1qTkamR%2Berz6vazHAmoxxYapu_qcAcrQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
