On 08/12/2007, Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > On 08/12/2007, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What I have done with the Debian packages is to just take the patches > >> for these minor patch releases and put them in the debian/patches/ > >> folder so that they simply get applied at package build time. That > >> allows me to keep the upstream version as just x.y.z. Then I just > >> increment the -w for the Debian revision. Of course, that could > >> potentially cause some confusion, but I have judged that possibility to > >> be fairly small, as most people who use the Debian packages will use the > >> Debian packages exclusively. > >> > > > > Yes, actually, that's more or less the strategy I've adopted currently > > for the Fedora packages, largely to avoid the hyphen problem. > > Would it help if I uploaded the source RPM?
No, I'm afraid that wouldn't address the issue. Fundamentally, it's incorrect to use the package release number (after the hyphen) to reflect a version number of the software being packaged (in this case the patchlevel of the tarball). RPM is a bit inflexible in it's approach to using a hyphen as the version-release separator, but none the less, it's now a well established strategy. J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
