[Kolab-devel] Making perl-kolab a real library

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 01 August 2007 17:22, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> The only change that I would like to request is to downgrade the
>> perl-kolab version from 5.8.8 to the Kolab server version (currently
>> 2.1.99). This might be too disruptive to the upgrade process though
>> and there is definitely no other reason for this request besides the
>> fact that I find it strange to have the version coupled to the perl
>> version that is being installed.
>
> I do not see a major problem in theory with this 
> as the version numbers are far apart.
>
> I do believe that we might want to do snapshot, beta and other releases
> in between so the development note:
>
> On Wednesday 01 August 2007 16:31, cvs at kolab.org wrote:
>> Once development picks up after a release, the version number should
>> be switched to $(OLD_VERSION).99 e.g. 2.1.99. There'll be no changes
>> of the version during development as there are no source packages
>> being released.
>
> is suboptimal.
> Think about if we want to release Kolab Server 2.1.1, then a version
> number like 2.1.99 is confusing.
> So I suggest to change the version number to $(OLD_VERSION)-cvs and add a date
> after this for a tarball, if possible.

It is nice for development because RPM picks up the higher version
number and automatically upgrades the packages. 

In any case the Kolab-specific server packages have always been
released following the .99 scheme (see for example
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/kolab/server/development-2.1/20051215-full/sources/
or
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/kolab/server/development-2.2/20070612-full/sources/).

I did not try to invent something new but rather noted what I
considered to be common practice. Or did you mean something else?

Cheers,

Gunnar



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