2015-10-10 19:00 GMT+02:00 Bas Wijnen <wij...@debian.org>: <snip> >> - The KiCAD developers have designated their new stable release as 4.0. >> Debian >> currently uses a date+revision version scheme. Should the Debian versioning >> be >> changed to reflect this? What is the proper way to do so? 4.0+bzrnnnn is what >> I currently use. Good/bad idea? > > If you're packaging the upstream release, you should use the version without > revision. If they are preparing for the release, so you are packaging a > checkout of code that will be released at some point as 4.0, you should use > 4.0~revision (which can be called whatever you want, as long as it is > monotonically increasing). Using ~ instead of + has the effect that it sorts > before "4.0", so when that is released it will be the newest version. > > If you're packaging a checkout which is based on the released version, you > should use + (or at least not ~), because then your version should be greater > than "4.0". > > I thought their code was on github? Using "bzr" sounds strange in that case; > "git" would make more sense.
The main kicad source is still on bzr on launchpad but there is a mirror called kicad-source-mirror on github. Nick
