Help wanted: Re: bugs.kde.org rejects tonight's CVS as outdated

Benjamin Reed ranger at befunk.com
Fri Jul 5 03:38:42 BST 2002


Dirk Mueller [mueller at kde.org] wrote:
> Therefore you have to use a strictly ascending numbering sheme, although 
> 3.0.6 still sounds a lot more stupid to users than "3.1 alpha 1". Thats why 
> we call it "3.1 alpha 1" but name it still 3.0.6. 
> 
> This code release numbering sheme btw also helps KDE_VERSION #ifdef's quite 
> a lot as well. 

Isn't this why they have epochs?  You can make a1 packages, and then raise the
epoch when the final version comes out.

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