Re: Changing version scheme for the evolution projects

[Jeremy Bicha <jeremy bicha canonical com>]

Resending since my previous email went to the moderation queue.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 9:41 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> In contrast, everyone knows how to handle alpha/beta/rc and knows what
> they mean. Just use tildes instead of periods in the appstream metadata
> (43~alpha, etc.)

Debian and its derivatives have a similar problem with the GNOME 40
style pre-release version numbering. We have to rewrite the versions
to use tildes instead of periods. It looks like Fedora is having to do
that too.

So we have a situation where it's requiring extra version mangling by
both distros and GNOME maintainers (to translate the version for the
AppStream metadata format), I believe distros have figured out
workarounds and updated their packaging scripts a while ago, but the
AppStream situation is probably needing manual work by GNOME
maintainers and mistakes are made.

I think we could save everyone some work by just making the tilde
style official instead of periods for pre-releases.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha