On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 11:09 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:02:33PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > For now I'll package another 'svn snapshot' (even if it's identical to > > 0.2) and keep versioning it 0.11.1, to avoid using an epoch - hopefully > > it can get re-versioned to 0.12 and then there won't be a problem. > > synce-hal 0.11.1 does not exist. It would be much more wise to use the > correct version number, for obvious reasons. Using an epoch cannot be > that hard. If it is, then I'd say there's something wrong with your > packaging system (I am going on what one must do with epochs in Debian; > they are frightfully easy to use).
They're not hard to use from the packager's perspective, but they screw up the versioning forever more (to a casual glance it will look like it's version 0.2, but it's 'really' version 1:0.2, and that's what you'll have to use for comparisons) as it can't ever be removed again. That's why we avoid the use of epochs wherever possible. You're right that there was always a VERSION file which specified 0.1, though - I must have missed that. Sorry :\ -- adamw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
