Re: Naming conventions

[Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com>]

2010/2/2 Marco Asa <aesir ml gmail com>:
> Hello, everyone, I'm the contributor of kupfer package in the
> Archlinux "AUR" repository.
>
> Unfortunately the build system of Arch doesn't like uncommon version
> identifiers such as "pandora-box-1", and I have to do some workaround
> to make the build script of the new version work, but still with two
> issues.
>
> 1)I have to invent a different version identifier: something like pb1,
> because hyphens are not allowed.
>
> 2)If the name changes again, it may be not recognized as an upgrade by
> the users, (this release would be OK since "c19" string compared to
> "pb1" is minor)
>
> I would ask if it's possible to adopt a more common, numeric
> progressing versioning system. Or at least to let me know if the
> next releases would be called also pandora-box (2,3 and so forth) or
> something else, so I could arrange a suitable workaround.

Hi,

I think either p1 or pb1 is ok. I only considered the debian policy on
version before deciding to use a hyphen. At the end of the day,
version numbers don't mean anything anyway, but as you see they at
least increase in lexical order.

Thanks for maintaining the Arch package!
ulrik