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

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Monday 13 August 2007 08:29, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> The '+' is something I don't fancy too much. I've ssen a lot of
> different version numbering schemes while packaging stuff for Gentoo
> but a plus sign was not among them so I'm sceptic about using it.

Okay, use a dash, if you do not like it.
>
> But other than that I'm fine with the alternatives you suggested if
> rpm correctly recognizes the higher versions. I was not very
> successful in checking what schemes are actually supported by RPM or
> how it determines what a higher version number is. Portage for Gentoo
> knows about version suffixes and recognizes 2.1.0_alpha1 < 2.1.0_beta1
> < 2.1.0_rc1 < 2.1.0 < 2.1.0_p1. That was why I chose "_cvs" as a
> version suffix. For Gentoo I'm rewriting that to "_p" (patch level)

Would it also be 2.1.0 < 2.1.0-cvs ?
If so I would prefer the dash over the underline character.

Bernhard

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