Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-11-18 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, Kallioinen Juha (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: The problem is imho the Application manager, not the version numbers. What's the point of even displaying the version number in the Application manager's default view? I personally don't care about the version at all and I certainly won't

Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-10-30 Thread Juha Kallioinen
ext Niels Breet wrote: On Thu, October 29, 2009 09:01, Martin Grimme wrote: Hi, hmm, what's so bad about a simple date for a version number? Ubuntu does it, (Open)Solaris does it, and I started doing it, too, because I found it less confusing than having version numbers such as e.g. 0.96.5.

Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-10-30 Thread Graham Cobb
On Friday 30 October 2009 11:44:17 Juha Kallioinen wrote: And a perfectly good one too! :) It's useful not to change the upstream package version too much so that it's easier to see that a package could use updating. I agree with all Juha's points (but I would, wouldn't I!). Maybe we need

Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-10-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:55, Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net wrote: On Friday 30 October 2009 11:44:17 Juha Kallioinen wrote: And a perfectly good one too! :) It's useful not to change the upstream package version too much so that it's easier to see that a package could use updating. I agree

Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-10-30 Thread David Greaves
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:20 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:55, Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net wrote: On Friday 30 October 2009 11:44:17 Juha Kallioinen wrote: And a perfectly good one too! :) It's useful not to change the upstream package version too much so that it's

Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-10-30 Thread Luca Donaggio
Why not simply telling minor release update whenever the version upgrade is in the epoch part only? Luca Donaggio On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM, David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:20 +, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:55, Graham Cobb

Re: The issue of version strings / improving Application manager view

2009-10-30 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 15:15, David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com wrote: So, the example of 2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu6maemo1 would just appear as 2.0.0 in the view. /me would be confused. Why is it upgrading 2.0.0 to 2.0.0 *again* ? You know what version you've got installed of