[arch-general] Package versioning

[Magnus Therning]

Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> writes:

> On Thu, 01 Sep 2016 23:57:07 +0200
> Magnus Therning <magnus at 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.

Yes, it looks like it would work better. Is there some description of
what the presence of a letter actually means?

/M

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