[Fedora-packaging] Version name for prerelease when upstream used date based versions

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 07/09/2009 11:34 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I am looking a the suggested version name for a prerelease when upstream
> uses dates for their versions.
>   
Doesn't 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Pre-Release_packages 
, "example (pre-release svn checkout)" help ?



> I am close to having a package (colossus) ready, but one sticking point is
> that upstream is probably a week or two away from putting up a new public
> build (essentially a snapshot they want to recommend to general users). The
> code has changed a lot since their last public release, so that a snapshot
> now is really much more of a prerelease package than a post release. Some
> things have changed from the last public build to make it more suitable
> for packaging in Fedora, so packaging that version isn't very practical.
>
> Upstream is considering changing to more normal version names, but probably
> won't make such a change before the next public build.
>
> I could hold off on putting the package into rawhide until after they
> make the next public build making the issue moot. (I wasn't going to put
> the package into a released version of Fedora until then in any case.)
> I could also use a current date for the version of the package, but that
> won't correspond to any actual release made by the upstream. I could also
> use the date of the last public build even though the code has diverged
> since then. (I am not sure if the interface has changed much since then
> since for my own use I have been running current svn check outs for over
> a year and don't use the public build versions.)
>
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