Am Dienstag, 13. Februar 2007 18:33 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> Ralph Passgang dixit:
> >in this case the complete version is "1.3.8-1",
> >so you mean the "-1" part?
>
> Yep, the package patchlevel or "dash version".
>
> >in fact thats an important point. as far as my packaging expierence goes,
> > this is not needed as long as a package doesn't get really
> > shipped/released.
>
> If the user must recompile the package, increase it.
>
> >on each minor upgrade the version number needs to be increased, which
> > might look strange, too. I don't really want a 1.3.8-1034 version for
> > example :).
>
> If you change something so that the .ipk contains something different,
> increase it. Otherwise, it will not be automatically recompiled by a
> top-level make. I had that with an important busybox bug fix (the logread
> -C16 one) - it was fixed like 10 revisions before, but my busybox pak-
> kage did not get recompiled because eJunky didn't bump the patchlevel.
>
> If you upgrade from 1.3.8-123 to 1.3.9, it's 1.3.9-1 of course. We don't
> need the SuSE-like version-global build number, but it _is_ needed, period.

that's obvious. :)

does the same apply for trunk or is increasing the package version number not 
as important as in the branch tree?

--Ralph

> //mirabile
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