On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:25 AM, David Nalley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I agree - there are also practical problems from a packaging perspecting. >> 4.0.0.5 is version 4.0.0.5 - but 4.0.0-5 is version 4.0.0 release 5. >> Plus we've agreed previously on a versioning strategy of n.y.z > > > You have to be exceptionally careful here. 4.0.0-5 is only "release" 5 if > you have voted on it. Perhaps you mean build 5? >
Sorry - terminology disconnect here. In packaging, 'release' is considered: The release tag can be thought of as the package's version. The release is traditionally an integer — for example, when a specific piece of software at a particular version is first packaged, the release should be "1". If it is necessary to repackage that software at the same version, the release should be incremented. When a new version of the software becomes available, the release should drop back to "1" when it is first packaged. See: [1] http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html --David
