Re: Handling upstream versioning scheme 2.40c >> 2.40b >> 2.40

2022-03-02 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi Mattia, On 2022-02-27 19:21, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 08:53:26AM +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote: >> The naming scheme could be adjusted to add '.' before the letter in >> version string (2.40c -> 2.40.c), but I cannot craft a watch file which >> could perform this. > > I'm

Re: Handling upstream versioning scheme 2.40c >> 2.40b >> 2.40

2022-02-27 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 08:53:26AM +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote: > dpkg-genchanges: warning: the current version (2.40c+ds-1) is earlier > than the previous one (2.40+ds-1) mh, yeah, that one's annoying. > The naming scheme could be adjusted to add '.' before the letter in > version string (2.40c

Handling upstream versioning scheme 2.40c >> 2.40b >> 2.40

2022-02-22 Thread Andrius Merkys
Dear Mentors, I am maintaining package c2x, which has the following versioning scheme: 2.40c >> 2.40b >> 2.40 This is correct order as per 'dpkg --compare-versions'. However, if I add '+ds' repack suffix (I need to), the order becomes reversed. Thus 'uscan' behaves as expected because it knows