-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Gear wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 03:49:53PM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote: >>> 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. >> It's a historical inanity. For the record, dpkg simply considers the >> *last* hyphen in the version to be the separator, and you can include >> as many other hyphens as you like before that.
Rpm release number is reserved for package maintainer only. I don't really see any reason to release new tarball when there is fix for latest stable version. If somebody install from tarball it's very convinient to update file on filesystem by downloading it and compying over old version. And for pacakge maintainers it's as easy to take patch fixing problem and add it to rpm or dep and build new release of package. If new tarball is generated there need to be new software release. And that applies to last minute change after package was send to wild. There should never be two pacakges with different content and same versionn number. So if 4.0.7 release is broken and it's found out in 2 hours, there should be immidiately new 4.0.8 release with fix. Not two different 4.0.7 tarballs. Imho version numbers don't cost very much. And immediate new release is better than confusion which is caused by deifferent tar revisions around :-). - -- Tuomo Soini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux and network services +358 40 5240030 Foobar Oy <http://foobar.fi/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHXThkTlrZKzwul1ERAopCAJ9HqV4u525MefnykDm4HoaXWtWVjgCfR0EJ gnJBj+xYefzyH0DwrkyLVVE= =uDhv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
