[Pkg-parrot-devel] New version of parrot package is in mentors
Jeremiah Foster
jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com
Wed Apr 6 15:40:21 UTC 2011
On Apr 6, 2011, at 17:18, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Le mercredi 6 avril 2011 14:15:51, Jeremiah Foster a écrit :
>>> Is it truly necessary for these packages to include the full version
>>> number as opposed to simply the major release number (or even just
>>> excluding the final part and using libparrot-3.x).
>> There are a bunch of reasons why the version number in Debian packages is
>> the way it is, and that the entire number is there.
[...]
> Hmm, you would be right if Kyle was mentioning '3.x' as being the package
> version. In libparrot's case, '3.x' is part of the package *name*. And the
> package file is libparrot3.0.0_3.0.0-1_amd64.deb
Ah. I made an assumption on the package name and I was wrong. :-) I should have checked.
Regards,
Jeremiah
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