Bug#682948: Incorrect versioning scheme disturbs upgrading

2012-07-27 Thread IRIE Shinsuke
Hi, 12/07/27, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote: I'm not going to use SVN revisions other than the stable releases. So Debian Blender package is not going to face this issue at all. Since I'm actually the only active maintainer for this package, I don't see any issue in naming using upstream's version num

Bug#682948: Incorrect versioning scheme disturbs upgrading

2012-07-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-27 at 09:58am, Micah Gersten wrote: > This is not an Ubuntu issue, but a PPA issue. I don't care, really (and sorry I confused matters by mentioning a specific Debian derivative at all). What I care about is if packages follow our "stream of changes" - i.e. upstream/downstream relation

Bug#682948: Incorrect versioning scheme disturbs upgrading

2012-07-27 Thread Micah Gersten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 severity 682948 wishlist thanks On 07/27/2012 09:12 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-07-27 at 10:02pm, IRIE Shinsuke wrote: >> I forgot to say that actually there were official deb packages using >> "+cvs" suffix in the past (ex. 2.25b+cvs.2003.02

Bug#682948: Incorrect versioning scheme disturbs upgrading

2012-07-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-27 at 10:02pm, IRIE Shinsuke wrote: > I forgot to say that actually there were official deb packages using > "+cvs" suffix in the past (ex. 2.25b+cvs.2003.02.17-1). So, "+svn" > suffix might be used for the future versions of the official packages. > > I mean the versioning scheme like

Bug#682948: Incorrect versioning scheme disturbs upgrading

2012-07-27 Thread IRIE Shinsuke
I forgot to say that actually there were official deb packages using "+cvs" suffix in the past (ex. 2.25b+cvs.2003.02.17-1). So, "+svn" suffix might be used for the future versions of the official packages. I mean the versioning scheme like 2.63.1 is generally necessary, not only for my PPA's pa

Bug#682948: Incorrect versioning scheme disturbs upgrading

2012-07-27 Thread IRIE Shinsuke
Package: blender Version: 2.63a-1 Severity: important Please don't change the versioning scheme, and don't use upstream version string "a", "b", etc. Old blender package for 2.49b used the package version "2.49.2" to avoid the upgrade issue. Changelog of 2.49.2~dfsg-1 says: This is actually 2