Hi,
just wanted to let you know that if you downloaded a conkeror nightly
build .deb this night between approximately 23:45 and 00:45 GMT +0200
(between 21:45 and 22:45 UTC) you received a nightly build with a
suboptimal version number, with a substring "pre", but just one tilde
in it, namely 1.0~pre+git110904-~nightlybuild1315172725.
If you have packages with that version number installed, you should
remove those packages and then install the ones which are currently
available in the nightly repo (version
1.0~~pre+git1109042240-~nightly1, note the two tildes). Otherwise apt
won't recognize newer nightly builds for a while because for future
compatibility reasons their version number is lower than the one which
was online for an hour or so.
Reason for the two tildes ("~~") is that in Debian version numbers, a
tilde sorts before everything else, even before the empty string. And
to be able to sort versions with "pre" in it before versions with
"alpha" (or "a"), "beta" (or "b") and "rc" in it and then again sort
them before the final release, I need two tildes for the pre versions
and one tilde for the alpha, beta and rc versions, so that the
following order is possible:
1.0~~pre
1.0~a
1.0~b
1.0~rc
1.0
Otherwise I can't sort "pre" before "a".
Due to the changes in Conkeror's version numbering scheme (see John's
announcement), I had to fine-tune the nightly builds script anyway, so
I took the opportunity to change a little bit more. Besides support
for pre-alpha, alpha, beta and rc versions, I also optimized
the generated nightly build version numbers a little bit:
Old: $VERSION+git$DATE-~nightlybuild$UNIXTIMESTAMP
New: $VERSION+git$DATE$TIME-~nightly1
They're now shorter and more human readable. And the new nightly build
version scheme also allows (potentially) more than one build per day.
Oh, and for those who were arguing about that the nightly builds were
made every night even though noting happened in the git repo: I'm
thinking about moving to per-commit builds (e.g. via jenkins) or
nightly builds only if something changed, but I'm still not yet there.
:-)
Kind regards, Axel
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