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Hiroaki Yutani commented on ARROW-4113: --------------------------------------- {quote}Is "0.12.0-0" smaller than "0.12.0"? {quote} No (I didn't know this until now...). {code} package_version("0.12.0-0") == package_version("0.12.0") #> [1] TRUE{code} One common practice is to add .9000 to the tail of the current released version to represent "development version." So, in this case, the version would be 0.11.0.9000. c.f. [http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/description.html#version] I guess you want to include "0.12.0" in the version string to indicate it's the development version of "0.12.0." But, as far as I know, R has no nice way to do that. Some possible choices are here: # use "0.11.0.9000" for development, and "0.12.0" for release # use "0.12.0" both for development and release # use "0.12.0-0" for development, and "0.12.0-1" for release (c.f [rstan|https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/rstan/]'s patch version is 1-origin) > [R] Version number patch broke build > ------------------------------------ > > Key: ARROW-4113 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4113 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Bug > Components: R > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Priority: Major > Fix For: 0.12.0 > > > The patch > https://github.com/apache/arrow/commit/385c4384eb0dcc384b443f24765c64e9d6d88d28 > broke the R build (which is in allowed_failures right now) > {code} > Building with: R CMD build > 0.22s$ R CMD build . > * checking for file ‘./DESCRIPTION’ ... OK > * preparing ‘arrow’: > * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR > Malformed package version. > See section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions' > manual. > The command "R CMD build ." failed and exited with 1 during . > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)