Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-22 Thread David Lowe
On 20 Feb, 2010, at 12:50 PM, David Lowe wrote: Sourceforge is giving a 404 error when looking for freeciv-2.2.0-rc1.tar.bz2, it has freeciv-2.2.0-RC1.tar.bz2. D'oh! I was smacking my head over why i kept getting this error even after 2.2.0 became an official release. This failure

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-22 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
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

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-20 Thread David Lowe
On 17 Feb, 2010, at 7:09 PM, David Lowe wrote: The version number i have used is 2.2.0-RC1, which is faithful to the upstream version. Obviously i need to be less faithful, but what is the suggested way to handle this? Would 2.2.0-rc1 cause any problems? I seem to run into a bit

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-20 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:50:24PM -0800, David Lowe wrote: On 17 Feb, 2010, at 7:09 PM, David Lowe wrote: The version number i have used is 2.2.0-RC1, which is faithful to the upstream version. Obviously i need to be less faithful, but what is the suggested way to handle this? Would

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-19 Thread Max Horn
Am 18.02.2010 um 19:43 schrieb Charles Lepple: On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org wrote: [...] yup, that's the final version (2.2.0) I was thinking of. Does Fink handle tildes? I think the Debian convention is 2.2.0~rc1. No, it doesn't handle these. I made a

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/19/10 12:24 AM, David Lowe wrote: On 18 Feb, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Or rather, 2.2.0 2.2.0-rc1 Oh, i guess i was being a bit myopic there. Thanks for pointing out my error. In any case, i wasn't planning on

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-19 Thread Koen van der Drift
It gets even more interesting with perl modules. For instance for Module-Build they go from 0.35 - 0.3501 - 0.3502 - 0.36. I'm just skipping the 0.350x ones, it would be a big mess otherwise :-) - Koen. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-18 Thread David Lowe
On 17 Feb, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM, David Lowe doctorjl...@verizon.net wrote: The version number i have used is 2.2.0-RC1, which is faithful to the upstream version. Obviously i need to be less faithful, but what is the suggested way

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/10 11:52 AM, David Lowe wrote: On 17 Feb, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM, David Lowe doctorjl...@verizon.net wrote: The version number i have used is 2.2.0-RC1, which is faithful to the

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-18 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:52:24AM -0800, David Lowe wrote: On 17 Feb, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM, David Lowe doctorjl...@verizon.net wrote: The version number i have used is 2.2.0-RC1, which is faithful to the upstream version.

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-18 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/10 1:36 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:52:24AM -0800, David Lowe wrote: On 17 Feb, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM, David Lowe doctorjl...@verizon.net wrote: The

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-18 Thread David Lowe
On 18 Feb, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Or rather, 2.2.0 2.2.0-rc1 Oh, i guess i was being a bit myopic there. Thanks for pointing out my error. In any case, i wasn't planning on releasing my info file until FreeCiv had a final version. I should just be able to force

[Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-17 Thread David Lowe
I'm experimentally trying to produce a new info file for latest version of FreeCiv, as a way of working myself through the packaging tutorial. The package validates successfully, but then i get this: $ fink -m --build-as-nobody rebuild freeciv Password: Scanning package description

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-17 Thread Charles Lepple
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:09 PM, David Lowe doctorjl...@verizon.net wrote:        The version number i have used is 2.2.0-RC1, which is faithful to the upstream version.  Obviously i need to be less faithful, but what is the suggested way to handle this?  Would 2.2.0-rc1 cause any problems?