Re: Changing version scheme for the evolution projects
- From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy bicha canonical com>
- To: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Changing version scheme for the evolution projects
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:03:49 -0400
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
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