On Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:57:07 +0200 Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
When packaging Haskell packages there's a bit of a twist to the version numbers that I'm looking for a solution to.
Upstream versions have two numbers, a version number (set by the upstream developer) and an "xrev" that's bumped when minor changes are made to packages on Hackage (Haskell's CPAN/PyPi/RubyGems/...).
Then the packaging has a release.
So far I've been using versions of the form
<upstream version>_<xrev>-<pkgrel>
But that isn't good enough, `pacman` has for instance reported that's
~~~ warning: haskell-vector-algorithms: local (0.7_1-2) is newer than haskell-core (0.7.0.1_0-1) warning: haskell-monadrandom: local (0.4_2-1) is newer than haskell-core (0.4.1_0-1) ~~~
which isn't correct since
0.7 < 0.7.0.1 0.4 < 0.4.1
It seems `pacman` treats underbar like a period, which isn't at all what I was hoping for.
I'm hoping for some help to find something better. Any suggestions on how I should do this properly?
/M
Sounds like <version>.x<xrev> would make more sense.