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[Patrys :: Patryk Zawadzki]

Dnia 08-07-2005, pią o godzinie 23:02 +0200, Tomasz Wittner napisał(a):
> On Fri 8. of July 2005 18:34, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > On Friday 08 July 2005 19:17, twittner wrote:
> > > +Version:       2005.07.08
> > > +Release:       0.1
> > > +License:       BSD
> > uh! such versioning just begs for epoch bump afterwards!
> > 
> I can't imagine such situation (but I'm not brilliant ;) - version is taken 
> from date '+%Y.%m.%d' . Please, provide an example when bumping epoch is 
> necessary - show me output from:
> 
> rpmvercmp YYYY.MM.DD-relX yyyy.mm.dd-relY

We use versioning as follows:

(1.)0.20050708-0.1

Then reverting to another snapshot or changing the versioning scheme
allows for smooth upgrades within the same epoch. For example if author
decides to give the next release a number of 2.0 instead of a date.

-- 
Patrys :: Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org>
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