Re: Re: Final tarballs

Posted by Liguo Song on Aug 27, 2003; 1:35pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Final-tarballs-tp10320p10336.html

Hi, Dirk,

Thanks for the nice advice.
> One word of advice, if I may: don't do that. You get crazy if you try to
> debug errors by asking people questions like "was it version $foo downloaded
> on day x, or on day y".  Making a distinction between versions is just what
> version numbers are for.
The dark magics of RPM are Release and Epoch, which will help me avoid the
problems. Release is the "1" in 0.3.3-1, and Epoch is something similar to
Release but is hidden from the normal version information.

> That said, following some offline chat with Luigi, I will call the Debian
> upload 0.3.3-1 because these are deemed final. Should hell freeze over, I
> can always follow up with Debian revision 0.3.3-2 ...
It might be a good idea to keep the version string consistent with different
packages. So, I will also call the RPM packages 0.3.3-1.

Later.


Liguo