[Fedora-packaging] Using of date in snapshot versions
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Apr 12 22:25:42 UTC 2007
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 12 April 2007 17:38:58 Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>> The date must still be in there. Some packages have used a format
>> like 20070412svn1234, which is acceptable although not strictly listed
>> in the naming guidelines as one of the possibilities. (Which is
>> something that probably should be in the guidelines.)
>
> Well, since we have a 0.X.<snapshot> scheme, and X is always increasing, does
> it really matter if a date is in there, or that the numbers past X even
> increment the right way?
>
> 0.1.1234svn
> 0.2.1233svn
> 0.3.1334svn
>
> Wouldn't those work?
imo, yes. As you(Jessie) pointed out, as long as the X in 0.X
increments, I don't really care what comes after it (within reason and
sanity, of course).
Unless there's some other reason for insisting on including the date,
but I can't think of one atm.
-- Rex
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