On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
Changing the package version number creates instant incompatibility
and intense hostility.
The package version is a very different thing from the implementation
version,
don't let the values confuse.
Yes, of course. I know. That's why I named it "RPM format version".
But
because you changed the RPM format slightly AFAIK some months ago
(this
"rpmlead" etc. stuff) I would have expected that this RPM format
version
is bumped. Not to "50000" but perhaps "30006"? I just want to make
sure
that we do not announce an old version there although the packages are
already using a different format.
Heh, your engineering POV is perfectly understood.
Literally one _YEAR_ of my life was wasted discussing
the deep semantics of the value 5 in *.rpm packages,
and my choice of XAR as a better format is to avoid
wasting _ANOTHER_ year of my life discussing stuff
that Really Doesn't Matter.
But feel free to change the _CONFIGURATION_ to
whatever pleases your engineering taste.
I'm going to XAR instead ;-)
73 de Jeff
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