Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Andrea: > > On 11/8/07, Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes and no. Nothing changed in the second digit: odd numbers always mean >> "unstable/development", even numers "stable". The third digit meaning has >> changed: an odd number (N) indicates a pre-release or a release candidate for >> the next even (N + 1) release. This is necesarry to correctly handle the RPM >> update issue, that always requires strictly greater version numbers. Anyway, >> if >> you have better ideas or improvements for the current versioning schema let >> me know. > > Currently, the 'Release' tag in our RPM spec file always start with 1. > > What we could do is with pre-releases, instead of 1, use 0 and also > append the SVN revision to this tag rather than to the version, so > instead of: > > 1.2.3.svn1234-1 > > it becomes > > 1.2.3-0.svn1234 > > so when 1.2.3-1 is released, we can upgrade. >
That's very interesting solution for RPMs, but I think it wouldn't work for Debian packages. >From http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version: > The format is: [epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision] > ... > The upstream_version may contain only alphanumerics[33] and the characters . + > - : (full stop, plus, hyphen, colon) and should start with a digit. And this is ok, but: > If there is no debian_revision then hyphens are not allowed. So, adding hypens in the upstream version forces to always use the "debian_revision". And it's not always possible, for example AFAIK we shouldn't use debian_revision for the "vanilla" upstream releases, that are the debs we release on SF.net. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
