To Ubuntu SciDaVis package maintainer. I am the project manager for SciDaVis. I have a question with how package version numbers are supposed to work in Ubuntu. About 6 months ago we switched from using Aegis to Github for version releases, and one impact of that change was dropping the D "delta" tag from the release numbers. The current version of SciDaVis is now 1.14.
I also distribute some prebuilt Linux binaries through the OpenSUSE build service. However, I notice that on Yaketty, if I add the OBS repositories, then Ubuntu considers the latest version (1.14) a downgrade from the version already in the Yakkety repository. Is it possible that Ubuntu is simply doing lexicographic sorting of the version string, and thus considers 1.D9 to be larger than 1.14, rather than using timestamps? If so then, maybe my solution is to put the D back in, just for Debian systems, at least until version 2.1 is released. Or is there a possibility of getting the official Yakkety distribution to upgrade to the latest scidavis? Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
