[Fedora-packaging] Confused by non-numeric version in release guideline
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Jan 14 11:54:20 UTC 2009
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>
>>>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For the moment I've used:
>>>>>
>>>>> Version: 0.1
>>>>> Release: 0.1.r11
>>>>>
>>>> What issue are you trying to solve by this choice?
>>>>
>>>> You are not solving anything.
>>>>
>>> I don't understand what you mean.
>>>
>> Let me turn my question around: Why can't you directly use the upstream
>> version?
>>
>
> Prepending 0.0 before the SVN version would avoid the need for an epoch
> should upstream decide later on to release numbered versions, even one
> as low as 0.1.
Correct in case of svn snapshot version.
But this doesn't apply here. This upstream releases releases but call
them "r<N>".
> (Though it cannot cover all possible ways upstream might
> use to number releases.)
Correct.
Ralf
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