SPECS: makewhatis.spec (NEW) - added - linux port of FreeBSD makew...

[Patrys :: Patryk Zawadzki]

Dnia 09-07-2005, sob o godzinie 14:32 +0200, Michal Moskal napisał(a):
> On 7/9/05, Patrys :: Patryk Zawadzki <patrys at pld-linux.org> wrote:
> > The point is - at one point we might decide to use another port of
> > makewhatis with different versioning scheme. Current approach will force
> > us to bump the epoch.
> This is ridiculous. If some other versioning scheme was used in current
> makewhatis you could as well be forced to change it upon change of
> implementation.

Does this mean we need to have another versioning system for packages
that are really code snapshots from a constantly changing code? I can
see no difference between current makewhatis and fortunes.

> And beside this is not a PLD problem as there is no other version 
> information available than the one from the upstream author, so you don't
> even have something to put in the Version: field.

There is no version? Fine.

Then let's keep it consistent and use YYYYMMDD without any extra
characters - that's how fortunes and wine modules are versioned. Why
invent another scheme?

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