[rkward-devel] version numbers for daily builds

[meik michalke]

hi,

am Sonntag 20 März 2011 (19:49) schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> > i don't knwo about apt-get, but aptitude must to be baffled by the change
> > in version numbers (to "0.5.5z-0.5.6-0daily-..."):
>
> yes, that's the problem. See also the bottom of the 0.5.5 announcement
> mail. 

ouch, that line i missed ;-)

> > maybe we can find some more robust versioning scheme for the dailies.
> 
> Acutally, I had changed the versioning scheme after running into problems
> with  the previous one. Anyway, it seems I did not check good enough. The
> core problem appears to be that the dpkg version check gets confused by
> too many dashes in the version name.

it seems to assume that "z" comes before "-". if that's true, the moment any 
stable 0.5.5-* versioned package appears in another repo, you'd be stuck with 
that one.

> I have now replaced most dashes with "+", and my tests using
>   dpkg --compare-version
> give more robust results, now. Let me know, if problems remain.

ok, i'll see what happens when the repo gets updated.


viele grüße :: m.eik

-- 
dipl. psych. meik michalke
institut f"ur experimentelle psychologie
abt. f"ur diagnostik und differentielle psychologie
heinrich-heine-universit"at 40225 d"usseldorf
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