Re: Release major version number change causing upgrade problems

2024-03-27 Thread Greg Troxel
Carl Laufer writes: > If the upstream osmocom soversion is bumped, then all forks will eventually > need to follow too. Because software packages will begin getting written > for version 2, then those forks will need to update to be useful to those > programs. I think the real issue is what are

Re: Release major version number change causing upgrade problems

2024-03-27 Thread Андрей Родионов
Hi guys, FYI If the 2.x version of the package is installed, it will not be automatically replaced by version 0.x, even if 0.x is newer and 2.x is older. The APT package manager adheres to the semantic versioning scheme to identify the newer version. Best Regards, Andrey > On 27 Mar 2024, at

Re: Release major version number change causing upgrade problems

2024-03-26 Thread Carl Laufer
Hi Steve, If the upstream osmocom soversion is bumped, then all forks will eventually need to follow too. Because software packages will begin getting written for version 2, then those forks will need to update to be useful to those programs. I believe the soversion should only be bumped when

Re: Release major version number change causing upgrade problems

2024-03-26 Thread Steve Markgraf
Hi, the reason why the version was bumped is because there are several forks of rtl-sdr that used version 0.8 and beyond, without changing the library name. Many people requested the release of a new version, and to avoid colissions of the version number with those forks, the major version was

Re: Release major version number change causing upgrade problems

2024-03-21 Thread Carl Laufer
To add to this here is a Twitter/X thread that the developer of SDR++ has put out, regarding the issues he's seeing with this major version number change. https://twitter.com/ryzerth/status/1771016439681466697 Regards, Carl On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 3:19 PM Carl Laufer wrote: > Hi, I just saw