[Pkg-libburnia-devel] Consistent version naming.

[George Danchev]

On Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:08:17 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,

Morning,

> Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> > > I recall
> > > a thread at the upstream mailing list mentioning these patch
> > > levels, but the discussion seems to have ended inconclusively.
> 
> George Danchev:
> > I think that the 'pl' (patch level) suffixes will be dropped with the
> > next upstream releases.
> 
> That's the plan, yes.
> The decision was made around 12 May 2011 on libburn-hackers list:

Great.

> me:
> >>>> I am willing to drop those suffixes.
> >>>> But won't that impose extra work or pitfalls on the distro package
> >>>> maintainers ?
> 
> George Danchev:
> >>> I'm quite sure that any package manager will treat, say:
> >>> 1.0.8 as greater than 1.0.6.pl00.
> 
> So i will change the scheme and then listen for protests.

I don't expect protests with sound reasoning behind.
Wrt, to patch-levels, I guess it is absolutely fine to release 1.0.8.[0-9] when 
some targetted and minimal fix needs to be applied, i.e. digits without pl.

> BTW:
> Are there any test results which would prevent release of
> libburn-1.0.8.tar.gz ?

None, I'm aware of.

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