Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:56:02 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> it seems to me to be weird having those "epoches" > > If all software developers were "well behaved" and they all co- operated > in their versioning, it would be weird to have "epochs". Al

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: it seems to me to be weird having those "epoches" If all software developers were "well behaved" and they all co- operated in their versioning, it would be weird to have "epochs". All versions, from all sources, would be monotonically increasin

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Dan: >First, don't think of second or fifth (per >http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/epoch) senses of "epoch"-- >the _beginning_ of some period (the meaning used re Unix time). >Think of the first or fourth senses--a _period_ of time. > >Then, think of a pac

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Dan B.
Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering schemes, to be left behind. What does this mean? From other posts in the thread it is still no

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:37:58 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older >>versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering >>schemes, to be left behind. > > What does this mean

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-07 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older >versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering >schemes, to be left behind. What does this mean? From other posts in the thread it is still not clear to me. If

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: [...] >> What does that non-sensical sounding explanation mean? Its not as if >> it is explained at the URL cited. > > It is a version override. For an epoch of "n", *any* version without an epoch > or with an epoch that is lower than "n" will be considered

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-06 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html > >  > epoch > >> This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be omitted, >> in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the upstream_v

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html > > > epoch > > > This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be omitted, > > in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the upstream_version

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html > epoch > This is a single (generally small) unsigned integer. It may be omitted, > in which case zero is assumed. If it is omitted then the upstream_version > may not contain any colons. > > It is provided to al

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:38:32 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > When I see this aptitude note: > > [UPGRADE] libavcodec52 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2squeeze2 -> 5:0.7.7-0.0 > > how do I interpret number "5:" in "5:0.6.1"? *** http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html 5.6.12 Version The

Understanding versioning.

2011-11-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. When I see this aptitude note: [UPGRADE] libavcodec52 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2squeeze2 -> 5:0.7.7-0.0 how do I interpret number "5:" in "5:0.6.1"? Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T