Re: Naming conventions

[Marco Asa <aesir ml gmail com>]

Il giorno Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:35:46 +0100
Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com> ha scritto:

> 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



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