On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:29:35PM +0100, Andrea Righi wrote: > 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
The '~' operator in debs is pretty useful for doing pre-releases, since it sorts < 0. 4.0.0~svn1234 is < 4.0.0. 4.0.1~rc1-1 < 4.0.0-1 etc. -- dann frazier ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
