On 7/1/24 14:48, Alec Leamas wrote:
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Hi Alec,
opencpn is currently in a beta phase targeting a 5.10.1 release. The
beta versions are like "5.9.2-beta2+dfsg-1ubuntu1~bpo2204.1". The
upstream policy is to use 5.9.2-beta2, 5.9.3-beta3 so this ordering is,
although a bit strange, still ok.
However, a quite large user base have PPA packages installed. These have
versions like 8767+b2cbf5a3f~ubuntu24.04.1. The prefix is a build
number, so they are ordered. but all these versions are higher than
anything like 5.9.x.
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The upstream shall consider adopting 5 digit release version numbering
without dots/periods. E.g. 50903 would mean version 5, major 09, minor
03. Thus you would go with package version numbering 50903-1 or
50903+dfsg0-1 as the case might be.
Milan
